Claire McCaskill

I do not believe it intended to shield anyone for responsibility for serious Federal crimes, much less sex trafficking.

We found, unfortunately, that the website is far more complicit in these crimes than anyone previously thought.

Who is the waiver approval authority for a ship that has expired training certifications for 7th Fleet?

More than half of all pass-through income in the United States goes to the top 1 percent of all taxpayers.

It has been an unmitigated disaster in Kansas.

I am down for that. And, by the way, we have two people here that are all about getting rid of stupid regulations.

I hope you get after that. I will be following up on that one, too.

If we do not do it now, I do not think it will get done. I think we will still have 70,000 pages.

I guarantee you a jury will convict these guys. It is outrageous to me that they have gotten away with this level of fraud for this long.

Believe me, program integrity is lost on this one.

Tell everybody at GAO how proud I am of this audit. This is a really good job.

Yes, those guys are cheating, the ones that are overriding the most.

the tax code provisions ostensibly are in place to encourage certain behavior and/or economic growth.

Nothing is happening here. There is no enforcement in this program. These guys know they can get away with it.

You have collected no money, much less sent anybody to jail.

The notion that you are letting one out of three override the duplicate verification process is outrageous on its face.

I began working, as Chairman Pai will tell you, I have been working on this for years, and it all began when I got a solicitation for a free phone at the condominium I live in in Washington.

I am really fascinated by prescription drug advertising.

I would like to know where I could get a cheaper joint. I would like to know how much my joint costs and where I could get a cheaper one.

Maybe we should do it the same as we do for car insurance. What if we said, you cannot get your car license until you show proof of health insurance?

I do not understand how doing away with the requirement of personal responsibility is in any way going to solve this problem.

it is astounding to me that the party that has lectured me on personal responsibility for many, many years all of a sudden wants personal responsibility to fly out the window.

We all have lots of ideas to make it better, but at the root of this is a country that has decided, I think for all the right reasons, that we are not going to make that man who bought the Harley die, we are going to take care of him.

So what would happen is, some of the sickest children potentially would be removed from the Medicaid rolls and put on the CHIP rolls, which would put incredible pressure on the funding levels of CHIP, which would squeeze out, at some…

This hearing is a symptom of a disease that runs rampant, and that is, we pass legislation to correct a problem.