Claire McCaskill

The notion that we cannot figure out who has died before we pay them... It seems to me... If the Federal Government cannot figure that out, then there is no hope.

We have no hope of understanding this problem if the data that we are collecting is not done in a way that it can support good public policy.

Do we not have something in place that, if there are tax preparers that are doing this...

I want the data to be good, and I want police departments to spend most of their time catching people who are doing bad things to people, rather than trying to figure out three different reporting standards.

I am not aware of any business that is in the kind of financial trouble we are in that decides it is a good idea to cut the receivables department.

So, you think that, for 50 percent of these questionable education credit claims, these preparers just did not know any better?

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.

I'm concerned the Secret Service is being stretched to its breaking point.

Due to a change in the law, the IRS will soon use private debt collectors to collect old tax debt.

I have not met anyone who says that is the best use of our resources, in terms of securing our border, and the only one who keeps talking about it is President Trump.

I am concerned about is that we are headed down a path toward an outcome without fully considering what would be the most effective use of the American taxpayer dollar.

I think additional fencing is essential and repairing fencing that is in place is essential.

There is no one on this Committee--and I do not think there is anyone in the Senate or in America--that does not want our borders to be secure.

we need to spend a lot more time with the people who live on and who study the Southern Border.

In response to this crisis, Senator McCaskill issued wide-ranging requests for documents related to opioid sales and marketing efforts.

Letter from Senator Claire McCaskill to Santosh Vetticaden, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Insys Therapeutics, Inc. (March 28, 2017).

There has been a war on public-sector unions in my State, and I do not get it.

It is not going to do us any good to hire 5,000 or 10,000 more if 50 percent of them are going to be doing administrative work and figuring out to get a higher GS ranking for pay.

If we have 10 workers working on the same Social Security number, give it to a jury and I will get a conviction in 10 minutes.

I could not agree more, but, I will tell you, Mr. Crane, Mr. Judd, and Mr. Reardon, I am not probably as excited about hiring a contractor to figure this out.

Why are we not prosecuting them? Why are we not going after the employers who are knowingly cheating?

That makes no sense, whatsoever. And, the fact that we are not doing that first--I mean, think of the efficiencies we could get out of your Agencies if we listened to the frontline workers, through your representation.

I hope you will continue to inform the Committee about how we can help with that issue.

if you start taking businesses to court and actually punishing them for doing this, it is going to clean this up faster than all of the border agents in the world.