Claire McCaskill

I would like us to get to the bottom of that.

I think we have to really drill down on debarment and suspension and why this is such a hard thing to do in the Federal Government.

So Tribute is going to show up again, maybe not at DOD, but at another agency. How are we going to ding them so we quit hiring them?

this is groundbreaking, it is unprecedented, and it is very bad.

I want to know what is being hidden from the public, and then we can go from there.

We cannot use litigation as an excuse to stop information from the Inspectors General.

Is there a plan to phase out B-1s prior to B-2s, or will they be phased out at the same time?

Most recently, in February 2018, an investigation led by Senator McCaskill through the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reported that manufacturers of the top five prescription opioids in worldwide sales…

If the committee has any evidence that the FBI is as you have stated biased and corrupt at the highest levels, I assume that evidence is strong in both quality and quantity and extends far beyond a casual mention in a text message between…

the continued success of EAS will depend on the expertise and ability of local authorities to fully and effectively deploy it.

I would like to thank Ranking Member McCaskill for launching an investigation of these relationships.

Drug prices are a huge problem in the country right now.

I hope that you will think about those 200,000 people in the State you lived in for part of your childhood, how they will lose their opioid addiction treatment coverage if this administration does what it tried to do earlier.

I know you said President Trump is living up to his promise not to touch Medicare or Medicaid or Social Security, but the fact is that he is not, because he wanted to sign a bill that would strip Medicaid from those 200,000 Ohioans.

There is something really wrong here.

every incentive is towards higher prices in the pharmaceuticals.

I just do not understand why the American taxpayer is subsidizing this gross overuse of television advertising.

I refuse to acknowledge what you are saying, and that is--the pharmaceutical industry wanted that in the law for a reason.

Oh, it is working. People are--the most heavily advertised are the most heavily prescribed.

one of the most basic tenants of free markets is negotiation for prices based on volume, correct?

That is just crazy. That is just nuts. Then there is something really wrong with the system.

I am going to ask you about reporting contractor past performance. It is another really irritating thing for me, that we have bad contractors and we keep doing business with them with no consequence whatsoever.

I do not need to explain to any of you what the dire consequences of that could be in today's world.

I was really concerned about the identified risk of an adversary infiltrating the supply chain and sabotaging, maliciously introducing an unwanted function or otherwise compromising the design or integrity.

I cannot tell you how many time I have sat in this committee and pointed out inefficiencies between the services for things that they are all using.