Claire McCaskill

I also understood that you recently suspended $14.2 million in costs that were billed by Fluor.

What I want to make sure I know at this point in time is who is responsible for each pot of money.

The ability to do oversight is going to be greatly hampered if we do not get that database working the way it should.

Anything else that I have missed, any big pots of money somewhere that are being spent that I have missed?

If it is true, then it really worries me because that means once again we have not had the integration between the military mission and the realities of contracting.

Is any of it getting delivered?

If we are getting integration and coordination between NATO and our efforts, then I will give all of you an A

I am trying to determine among these ambassadors who is the ambassador that has the authority and the accountability and the responsibility in terms of the contracting that is going on.

The idea that we have the military overseeing a massive road-building project just seems weird to me.

How do we accomplish that if the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing and we are paying our contractors more than those military or police make?

We will each do 5-minute rounds and do as many rounds as we need to do in order for everyone to cover their questions today.

If you are an Afghan and you can make more money cooking for American troops than you can make taking up a gun to fight the Taliban, I am betting they are going to cook for the troops.

By unanimous consent, I would like us to vote on the health care bill by Monday, so I can get home for Christmas.

So many more road projects, yes. That makes sense.

It was just not clear who was the one that was going to be accountable when things went badly.

So it is not task to task competition that we ended up with. It ended up regional competition.

There is supposed to be one, and everyone is supposed to be using it, so we can have transparency.

It is my understanding that Fluor has the North in Afghanistan and DynCorp has the South, correct?

I continue to be confused why we are utilizing LOGCAP III and not more aggressively transitioning to LOGCAP IV.

I saw that DynCorp's partner got indicted, Agility, criminally indicted for violations of the False Claims Act, which to translate into lay terms, they got caught ripping us off.

I think that we just got to all agree on what we are going to put in or what we are not going to put in.

I think it was an F. Now, in the end, it got better. But in terms of how it all came about and how the LOGCAP happened and how all of the reconstruction happened and the confusion and the lack of accountability, maybe a D minus.

I really want to know specifics. How much does somebody make doing laundry for our troops and how much do they make, let's say, in Kandahar or at Camp Phoenix?

CERP is doing large projects. The question is are they contracting with people to do that or is Army Corps going to come in and do that?

I think we got to resolve this. Clearly, everyone is hiring Afghans. I mean this is an unprecedented hiring of locals in terms of our country.