Claire McCaskill

I think this would be a good time for us to bite the bullet...and put all of these items into the base budget.

the shortage of 75,000 licensed drivers in the trucking industry, and understanding how important this is for our capabilities in terms of supply and resupply.

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

I am worried that even if we put every single truck driver we train in the military into the civilian trucking industry, we are still not going to have enough.

We are depending on you to be our front line eyes and ears to their aggression.

The Army is committed to ensuring all qualified and interested candidates, whether male or female, have the opportunity.

Although DHS has named election infrastructure as part of their critical infrastructure.

I am not sure that we are getting adequate information about how much success we have had.

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

The President said that he was going to have historic increases in defense spending.

I am awaiting the strategy on ISIS, which was supposed to be ready 30 days after the President took office. We still do not have that.

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

Until we have a Commander in Chief that is willing to speak out against this thug and his behavior, I do not know that all the great work that you and your command can do is ever going to move the needle enough.

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.

Last year, Admiral, General Scaparrotti testified at this hearing that North Korea has one of the largest chemical and biological weapons stockpiles and research programs in the world.

We continue to work closely with our CENTCOM partners in both Afghanistan and Syria.

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

We indicated to them that we would be cooperative in trying to deploy THAAD to Japan.

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

Are you familiar with the UK model?

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.

Russia is a problem.

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?

Do you think it is appropriate to conduct acquisition and requests for information at the same time? Do you think that is appropriate? Or is that not good government?

The Mexican relationship I think we all agree is very important to our border security.