Claire McCaskill

Congratulations to your staff. It is--it would make any prosecutor proud, this report.

there's something terribly wrong that so much of the accountability that happens in our government happens through whistleblowers.

their chances to go to prison are way too slim

We spend a lot of money in this country putting people in jail that steal cars.

I understand that it may not contain all the information needed, but it would seem to me that if you came across another proposal from the same entity, that we ought to be able to figure out how to pick up the phone and call someone and…

if we go too far with this, then all we're going to do is chase more jobs to China and India, where they've been putting up coal-fired plants every 10 minutes.

I think we've got an iceberg here, and I think we've got to do more than chip away at it.

if we go too far with this, that is, cap-and-trade, then all we are going to do is chase more jobs to China and India, where they have been putting up coal-fired plants every 10 minutes.

there's a sense that if you do things like this, you can pay people back, and you won't be separated from your families, and you won't go to prison

I'm going to see if we can't continue to put a lot of attention in this area at SBA and see if we can't get that fixed. And I do think that there is merit in this program.

It is amazing to me that there is a sentence in a GAO report that reads as follows: 'The Department of Defense now prohibits'--underline 'now prohibits'--'payment of award fees for unsatisfactory performance.'

And one of Mr. Assad's many challenges is that, as your report found out, DOD, in terms of contracting makes an octopus look like it does not have very many legs.

These were cost-plus contracts.

Well, it is interesting to me--I mean, and this culture change would never have happened in the private sector.

The best example I can think of that should outrage the American public is the company that wired the showers that killed our soldiers.

I am very proud to have nominated her to the board, and I certainly urge the Committee and the Senate to confirm her nomination.

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to introduce an outstanding nominee for the Board of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.

You are both role models of how this should be done, and I would say that even if I were not on the Committee.

if you check your files for scams that Senators have written about, that are on the Committee, they're probably going to ask about them at the hearing.

I would like to ask the FTC, Does the current law give you enough recourse to take actions on these fake newscasts?

I mean, it is deceptive, on its face.

Well, it's not hard to find it right now. It's everywhere.

It's bad enough that people are turning on the evening news and don't believe what people are saying.

We need to rely on our news.

I think consumers would be really shocked to see that.