Claire McCaskill

Would you agree that Category 3 is the one that is most dangerous for the children when they are not with a parent or a close relative?

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

I do not think 10 to 15 full-time on election security is anywhere near adequate.

I always want to make sure that oversight can continue, regardless of the parties that are in charge.

Do you believe that the NPPD management should comply with requests for documents and information from Members of Congress, regardless of party?

I think you are--and I will tell you that staff that interviewed you came back and said, 'He is the real deal. He really knows what he is talking about.'

I know what State employees are paid in the State of Missouri. I know what the market bears for good IT help right now.

Do you agree to provide information and documents when requested by Members of Congress, regardless of party?

We are trying to follow up on some very bad contracting that occurred in this space, which we are trying to figure out how to make sure those mistakes are not made again.

Pharma has a vise grip on Congress--the notion that we cannot negotiate for volume discounts.

Price increases for the 20 most-prescribed brand-name drugs in Medicare Part D have gone up 12 percent every year for the last 5 years.

I think the American people have been misled here, because it is my understanding that a number of the States do not have the tools to capture that activity.

At DHS' request Congress included $26 million for the Department's election work in the omnibus.

Ninety-five percent of the businesses in this country have no idea what the rules are going to be on pass-throughs.

This is the most complicated thing that has been added to the tax code, I would say in generations.

There has not been one announcement that the price of any of those highly prescribed drugs... has gone down.

The tax code is broken, folks; we have to have a bipartisan change.

21 States were affected by Russia's cyber activity.

I want to make clear today on the record that it is likely that all 50 States were likely affected and that States that were not on that list were less vulnerable.

$45 billion, it is estimated, that they have gotten in terms of a windfall just since this tax bill was put into place.

In the last 6 months, this country... has added over $2 trillion to our debt.

As Ranking Member McCaskill noted in a recent report entitled, "Fueling an Epidemic: Insys Therapeutics and the Systemic Manipulation of Prior Authorization," Insys revenues tripled and profits rose 45 percent between 2013 and 2015.

I would like to enter that report into the record.

This hands-off approach for these incredibly unconscionable price increases that are not driven by R&D, they are driven by greed, unadulterated greed, in an area where people are dying.

Their internal sales slogan was 'start them high and hope they don't die.'