Claire McCaskill

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

I would like that report also to be made a part of the record.

Why are we not being more aggressive and going after these companies that are doing this?

I just want you all--this hands-off deal about pharma is wrong, and I want you to be as mad as I am about it.

Well, I just hope that the exploration does not take very long. We have people dropping dead in my State every day.

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.

The Postal Service is the only delivery service reaching every address in America, and is growing by 1.1 million addressees per year.

I do not think we are going back, in terms of volume of packages in this country, and I am very concerned that we have enabled our competition to be more successful while we have hamstrung the Postal Service.

the prevalence of abuse by guardians.

That is just not true. Your folks are giving you the wrong numbers. There were at least 14 that were canceled.

I think if you read it, you will be startled. It reads like an Internet scam.

The records show that at least 14 hurricane response contracts were canceled, and, frankly, at least 7 of those cancellations appear to be due to the vendor's failure to be able to meet the requirements.

Can we make a condition of those grants that they pre-position contracts for disaster for things like sheeting, tarps, food, water?

It just seems weird to me because the Governors, I mean, there is way too much thought around this place and around everybody in elective office that they are just worrying about the next election cycle and maybe not enough concern about…

Obviously, it was 30 million meals that were supposed to be delivered--30 million meals--and they had delivered 50,000 before everybody figured out it was a joke.

if it is Federal money and we are the ones that are going to be on the hook for more Federal money if they put back up the wooden poles that blow over again, that seems that we ought to incentivize it maybe that you get 10 percent more if…

Clearly, we are not using--in this instance the pre-positioned contracts were not even being used.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Mr. Long, for being here today.

So it is not one of these things where they can actually turn to a more expensive--they are not bringing this in because they are getting it cheaper than they can get it in the United States.

it is going to be unfair what happens to Missouri soybeans, but it is for the national good.

ag is going to be the easiest target for retaliation.

I think all the small manufacturers are going to be lost in this process.

I would call it 'precarious' rather than 'peculiar.'

If there is one area that I pretty much believe, on a bipartisan basis, everyone realizes that we have got to up our game, it is in cyber warfare.