Claire McCaskill

That is incredibly damaging, and all the bad guys are going to like just lie.

I think having these hearings is how we get to the bottom of it and find out the facts.

I do not understand, for the life of me, how anybody with ICE would not want to prioritize someone who had been previously deported for a felony drug conviction.

I think that would be very helpful, because I know he wants Missourians to be able to fly, too.

The more quickly you clarify whether or not this is going to be enforced next year is really important.

I think this is one of those areas where we have to be really careful with the budget the President presented.

We need to be putting the necessary resources into detaining the criminals.

I think it is unfortunate that they are not here, today, to apologize to you--at a minimum.

I hope that together the Chairman and I can work to make sure that we have witnesses from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) answer some of the questions that need to be answered.

I think we have to be doing some extraordinary steps about electronic devices.

I think this has a profound impact on our standing in the world, a profound impact on the nature of our alliances around the world, and a profound impact on our national security.

We have never announced that it is the policy of America that all foreign visitors to our country could be subjected to this kind of questioning and this kind of intrusion.

GAO's 2017 High-Risk Report provides us with a list of priorities for how this Committee can target and root out waste, fraud, and abuse.

Your work supports us in meeting our legislative and oversight obligations under the Constitution.

In your opinion, at GAO should something that is going to cost billions of dollars begin without a cost-benefit analysis?

Are you working with DHS right now, are you working with other people in the area of cybersecurity so that you are confident you are going to have the protection of that data that will reassure people?

I really consider GAO to be one of the most important entities in Washington, D.C.

I just worry that we are going to have deja-vu all over again, that we are making this more complex than it needs to be.

Would it be typical to begin a multibillion-dollar project without any appropriated funds?

The first nominee of President Trump that this Senate considered was confirmed by a vote of 98 to one. I would not consider that a partisan vote.

You understand this is completely uncharted territory, we have never had this situation before where a government run by a businessman who has not divested could, in fact, enrich himself by what his government does.

You cut Medicaid by a trillion dollars in your 2017 budget.

the partisan back-and-forth sometimes is hard, especially around the subject of who is failing when it comes to regular order on appropriations and doing budget bills.

I think there has been analysis of the private workers that has been compared to FTEs, and in many instances it has not saved us a dime.

We are about to repeal Obamacare without one Democratic vote. This will be a partisan exercise under reconciliation.