Claire McCaskill

And he is evading us now?

The president's budget we'll take up in a couple months. This is a leftover from last year.

I've watched the Defense Contracting Audit Agency basically get taken to task by their peers for failure to even follow basic auditing standards.

We have a bunch of idiots on Wall Street that are kicking sand in the face of the American taxpayer. They don't get it. These people are idiots. You can't use taxpayer money to pay out $18 billion in bonuses.

Senator Claire McCaskill wants CEO pay to be capped at $400,000.

I'm worried we're going to have 30,000 troops in Iraq and 100,000 contractors.

Clearly there is some 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' that goes on with the earmarking process.

I'm a little cynical because I saw the kind of lack of oversight that occurred in Iraq.

We may take a more extensive look at this down the line in another location, but I would be very interested in knowing how this came about.

I just want to make sure we're having enough clearance here.

Also, to the extent that you can today or for the record reassure us that you are being more aggressive perhaps than State has been in terms of the oversight of security personnel at your base camps.

It is important to move from a climate of punishment towards a climate that reduces the stigma of seeking treatment.

You are certainly familiar with David Luthold and Drs. Casey and Tilliman.

Thank you to all of you for your service.

Some things aren't going to change. The north is going to want more water, and the south is going to fight about it.

We need that navigation. It is very important to the economic health of our State.

I understand why Senator Dorgan wants the Garrison diversion project, but what he is advocating now is a new study.

We completed a study that cost $35 million about the river. It cost $35 million, and it took 15 years to complete.

I think that one of the ways that we will fix this long-term is for there to be an atmosphere of accountability.

We have contracted out so much of the services that are needed that we can't even inventory those services for years.

We have gone a long way in Congress to try to begin to stop the revolving door.

I certainly understand that employees within DOD have a standard of conduct. But I also understand, we can't do our job in oversight, if they are all stifled.

I would like to get a commitment from you today that this would be one of your highest priorities, as we strive to tell the taxpayers of this country that we get it, that they have been fleeced, in many instances, and our military has been…

You know, 16 million here, 100 million here, 300 million there. Pretty soon you've got billions and billions of dollars that we could be saving.

$16 million here, $100 million here, $300 million there, pretty soon you've got billions and billions of dollars that we could be saving.