Claire McCaskill

The President is proud that they have gutted this.

I think the American people are going to make an independent judgment on that.

you are picking winners and losers on a very technical basis.

If these technologies have been developed and are commercially available, there needs to be a really good excuse why we are not availing ourselves of that technology.

Well, then I want to get a head start on looking at commercially available, off-the-shelf technologies so that we are not back here 5 years from now talking about the 400 million, the 500 million, the billion that was wasted in an…

I look forward to continued work with you on this bill and that we can hopefully continue to adjust and take input to provide the kinds of authorities needed for our government to keep us safe, while at the same time protect Americans'…

I would not call the DACA recipients, the unaccompanied minors, 'apprehensions.'

DACA was wiped off the books by this Administration in March of this year, and since March, the number of people coming across the border has increased, not decreased.

There has been zero requests for additional port officers, zero, last year or this year, to be used at these critical places.

Our citizens are dying from fentanyl every day.

The fact that there is not a CONOPS, the fact that there is no joint concept of operations, and we are upping the number of children we are taking from families is outrageous.

Imagine my surprise when I find out that we are working on this, and who is in charge? The Chief Counsel.

Eighty-five percent of the fentanyl, which is killing all of our constituents every day, 85 percent of it is coming in through the ports, not across the Southern Border.

DHS keeps the children for maybe 48 hours, and hands them off to HHS.

He sent me a handwritten note after the last Armed Services Committee hearing, when I went off on this, and he says we are going to hold somebody accountable.

It is an egregious example of contracting gone amiss.

If there was anything that we could agree on, Mr. Chairman, it would be that I would love to partner with you and any of my colleagues on this Committee or any other committee to speak with one voice, that we are never going to stop some…

Inspectors General in the military report to their commander.

No chance am I going to quit bad-mouthing this company until we get to the bottom of what happened.

It is 58 percent so far in 2018.

I guess I have too much experience prosecuting child abuse, and too many times I have been looking at the reports that come in through the hotline, with foster parents who on the surface appear to be great folks but have committed…

Keep in mind our report found that 53 percent of the unaccompanied minors were not showing up.

I do not even know what to say. It is just like stunning.

I have no absolutely no confidence that would have happened had you not called the hearing.

I think a child who has been placed--if you look at what happened in Ohio, if you look at the tragedies we have seen around this country, it has been when, unfortunately, there has been someone trying to prey upon these children that was…