Claire McCaskill

One of the places they cited particular problems, Mr. Skinner, was, in fact, with the DHS IG...

I want to make sure that we're not going down this same road without having a very clear view of what the contracting needs are going to be.

I think we need to be vigilant and stay on you like white on rice.

I think between the agreement with Cuomo and the agreement in New Jersey, are we not talking about a half a billion dollars that you all are paying?

If this is just accurate data, how can you market that they would save that kind of money over what they had been paying?

I guess my concern, Mr. Hemsley and Mr. Slavitt, is that I anticipated, after the hearing last week, that your testimony today would be 'we did not do this right,' not just it did not look good, but 'we did not do it right.'

I think this is why the health care reform--you know, there is such a lack of confidence in so many institutions right now, Congress being among them, but certainly health insurance is one of the places where most people that I work for…

Some doctors do negotiate lower fees when the patient is left holding the bag.

I think it's important to note that, even the American Medical Association, when they need a justice to be addressed, turn to America's trial lawyers to try to get into court and fix a problem.

It took the muscle of the people's lawyer.

The promise wasn't kept.

I'm a big fan of Andrew Cuomo.

I find it a little ironic that the Missouri Medical Association and the AMA turned to America's trial lawyers to right a wrong.

the NIH model is not going to cut it as it relates to researcher based, as opposed to, 'Here is the problem. What do you need? Go.'

I would like to try to focus on some of the pragmatic recommendations, the challenges pragmatically with some of the recommendations that you have made.

I don't need to tell you that we have some challenges here, in terms of culture.

there's nothing better than realizing that part of the legislation you're pushing may not even be needed anymore.

I just want to know whose shoulder I need to look over, because I'd like to pay attention to that.

There are some bad habits we have in Congress, and that is a tendency to be very parochial when it comes to you buying things.

I think that the comment you made, Director Blair, about the recognition in our country that it's not the Muslim faith that's the problem, it's terrorists who inappropriately mask their terror in a religious connotation.

All the State governments are offering early retirement to experienced auditors because of their budget crunches.

These people that are out there preying upon folks at this point in time, they are pond scum and they should go to jail.

This is about having more information about IGs and who they are and what they do, and how they get to the jobs, and more information about GAO.

Helping all the people out there typing on their laptops.

Yes. And speaking of English, we have been spending a lot of time on Recovery.gov in my office and the weekly updates, kind of feel like internal use project plans.