Claire McCaskill

How can you say you are going to have 3-percent growth and you are going to have all this growth and revenue because of the tax cuts if you never put in the budget what the tax cuts cost?

So, either you are double-counting and someone is not paying attention to how you do accounting, or you just made a mistake.

That does not even make sense.

I think it is only fair that we continue to drill down on some of the--a kind way of putting it is 'anomalies'--that are in this budget document.

I think it is really important that we understand where this is flowing.

the promises made to them are going to be broken.

I really would like to know why my information is different than yours.

You cannot say tax reform is paid for by growth and then count that growth as against the deficit.

Your budget assumes 3-percent growth, which I am not going to argue about with you here, but I think most economists in the country are vociferously arguing about the notion that 3-percent growth is going to happen.

I think that you cannot say that the growth of $2 trillion is going to pay for tax cuts and say it is going to reduce the deficit at the same time.

What worries me is that in America, there are too many people I have talked to, wonderful American Muslims, who feel very disconnected right now.

I was pleased that the President went to an Arab nation, a Muslim country, as his first visit, signaling to the world that we want to have allies in the Muslim world, that this is very important.

I am worried about chemical weapons in North Korea.

you have done this with zero--count it, zero--additional public money, zero additional Federal dollars.

Make no mistake about it: Russia is trying to break the backbone of democracies across the world.

I think this is a really good idea, and I think it is time we think outside the box.

I do think in the long run it is going to save us resources, too, and up our capability.

I think that's an important marker that we need to put down.

There is something wrong here that we are pulling this kind of expertise into the Guard, and then we are going to turn around and say we don't want you because of push-ups.

I'm trying to put in the NDAA some way that if they're going to be training at a base, that they can access the childcare facilities on the base for their children during training.

The billions and billions of dollars we have wasted in how we acquire IT for the military.

I was really appreciative of the mention of childcare. It's a big deal, and I appreciate that the bipartisan group called that out in the report.

It would be much simpler if we would just require they do one set of data across Agencies.

Well, that is like cutting off our nose to spite our face, because these are the people we need to bring in the receivables.

And, by the way, the data is not very useful then.