Claire McCaskill

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.

As a former prosecutor for a lot of my career, I was honored to work shoulder to shoulder with law enforcement.

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

That is a felony. And, if that is going on, we need to know about it.

It does not matter if the victims cooperate. If you can prove that this was an Active marine...

I want to make sure that you all respond to the point that has been made previously...

It seems to me that the discussion that we are trying to have about pressure on China to do the right thing, especially in light of what I learned from you in terms of China's activities, the militarization in the South China Sea, that the…

I would certainly hope that would be on NATO's agenda as to strategies moving forward to combat this kind of insidious disinformation.

I worry that the American people will not understand that we have not even begun to do what we need to do, in terms of bringing our combat brigades to where they need to be.

We are putting real resources out there in the military going after Russian behavior.

Russia is a problem.

Are you familiar with the UK model?

They try to break the backbone of democracies all over the world.

However, I respectfully defer to the CENTCOM Commander for the specifics on the Syria Train and Equip revision.

I defer to the CENTCOM Commander for more specific operational details in both Afghanistan and Syria.

I just worry that they are really insidiously trying to insert combat-related stories that reflect favorably on Russian soldiers.

Do you feel confident that Army forces generally, and in the Pacific theater specifically, have the CBRN equipment necessary to defend United States troops against a potential chemical or biological attack by North Korea?

I was heartened when I learned that a plan was being discussed to order 24 more of these tried and true aircraft on existing production lines.

The Army is recruiting across the spectrum of the eligible population.

The amount of money that was wasted was astounding. We just cannot afford it.

Duterte is not having a negative impact on the mil-to-mil relationship is what you are telling me.

I think that Japan should have some kind of a system like that, but whether it is THAAD or Aegis Ashore or both or some other system, they are going to have to make that decision.

I learned about some of that when I was in Jordan.

With these cuts how are our allies and regional partners to be assured that the United States takes seriously the threat of Russian aggression and the potential harm to regional stability?

Can you please outline the national security impact of the recent decision by a number of Gulf Cooperation Council members to sever diplomatic ties with Qatar?