Claire McCaskill

I do not need to tell you about the hundreds of millions of dollars that OPM has wasted on IT systems.

If a decision is made to reduce our troop presence, do you expect to see a continued reduction in the number of contractors?

Are we building the forces Afghanistan needs, wants, and can sustain or are we building the forces the US and NATO want?

We currently expect about 9,800 US servicemembers to remain in Afghanistan through most of 2016.

I appreciate the plan DOD has developed to implement the 'Catch a Serial Offender,' or CATCH, Program and staying within the timelines set out by the fiscal year 2016 NDAA.

It is an honor to be here in front of all of you.

I think that one of the reasons we wanted to do this is to make sure that your department gets that equipment that you need

I have been a little disappointed that there has not been more robust support for the bill

I do think that a little bit of tweaking in terms of proportionality and training is probably the order of the day

This bill would say that, if you are going to get this type of equipment from the Federal Government, you would be required to have a program in place that would require training.

We discovered a number of things after Ferguson in a hearing that we had in this Committee.

What is the most important thing you are going to do after this hearing?

You have to step back from this and look.

I think you are flat wrong.

Establish policies and programs to ensure that unaccompanied alien children in the United States are protected from traffickers.

So resources are not helping in that they are not able to utilize those resources quickly enough to deal with being overwhelmed by the great increase in numbers of children?

That does not give me a lot of confidence.

I find the situation in front of us today unacceptable, and I am disgusted and angry.

DACA was not ambiguous. Children here 2007 or earlier.

You are a lawyer. You know better. You know you can do that under this law.

It has been a cooperative and bipartisan investigation, and I appreciate as always the opportunity to work with you to bring these issues to light.

I need your lawyers to get me in writing, and I would like it within a week, what it is in the law that prevents you from doing a home visit.

I would like to have staff followup... and figure out where the disconnect is between the capacity that is out there and the fact that we are not, in fact, utilizing...

When it is children, it is HHS.

I want to make sure we don't make the same mistake with the B-21 that we made with the F-35.