Claire McCaskill

This is about making sure that somebody down that rural road in Shannon County can start a small business.

You are not going to get very far if you do not give us the data.

You are asking Congress to give you the authority, maybe sequentially and maybe over years, to implement bold changes.

NTEU strongly supports legislation recently introduced by Finance Committee member Senator McCaskill (D-MO), S. 2314, the Border and Port Security Act.

If we cannot get what you are getting that is informing the proposals you made, how can you expect us to fully evaluate those proposals?

If you will deal with us in good faith and not stonewall us on a basic question, 'Give us the number of proposals you think need legislative action,' that is not a high bar for information.

You cannot implement without us.

I am disappointed, since we have already saved $1 billion, that the President's budget only allocated $1 million for the Council.

We are not doing screening and enrollments, even though we passed a law requiring it.

The AMP hydropower project is a perfect example of how frustrating it is when FERC and the Army Corps do not talk to each other and require duplicative information.

It is going to make a difference in terms of being able to get infrastructure in place in a way that saves local jurisdictions money.

I think we need to be clear. She was invited and declined to come and, instead of coming, issued a press release.

This is an idea that is going to make a difference in terms of saving taxpayers money.

I think it would be helpful for us if there is language that would clear this up and that would be more directive and not discretionary.

this Administration is now actively, along with these Attorneys General, trying to get rid of the preexisting condition protection

there was not an effort to pass the ACA because all of us were trying to make people's lives miserable.

I want to make sure from the perspective of your membership, if there is anything that we need to put in the legislation that would be helpful.

I am disappointed, along with my colleague, that we do not have a permanent executive director.

I certainly agree with the Chairman that transparency on costs would help a great deal.

You all are in charge of health care. You control the White House, you control Congress.

The President is proud that they have gutted this.

I have not seen the President at a rally saying, 'Let us pass the CSRs.'

It is all right, because we have essentially gutted it anyway.

The Attorney General in my State has gone to court to do away with preexisting conditions protections in the United States.

It is stunning to me that we find ourselves in this place.