Claire McCaskill

I know that you understand how important missions like this are to demonstrating our commitment and our capabilities, and what an important role they have in deterrence, particularly as we look at the actions of North Korea.

I will continue to push to bring the C-130J to St. Joe.

The first ballistic missile defense test against an ICBM missile range target will be conducted in this fall.

I think that it is really important that we get a handle on this.

You are in a death struggle with your competitors, and I just do not want them to have any advantage over us.

We look like suckers. We need the volume. We do not care if you are making money off of us.

Today, women are significantly underrepresented within the Military Services.

There should never be an instance when our competitors are making money off of us for the last mile, ever.

The U.S. taxpayers deserve transparency on how their money is being spent and the assurance that it is being done so efficiently and effectively.

I pledged to serve the people who serve in uniform and the civilian personnel who support them...

This Congress has been incapable, despite this guy who works on this, I think, 24/7.

Well, there is a lot of expertise that normally does not reside in the Department of Defense.

The idea that we are worried about Yellow Book standards today, give me a break. We have almost $1 billion--no metrics, no cost-benefit analysis, no sustainability analysis, a program that is dumb on its face.

I want to know, because I want to talk to that person and find out what they were on that day, because that is bizarre.

We had an ugly morphing of CERP to this task force to the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund [AIF], no proof that the metrics worked on any of it in terms of fighting counterinsurgency.

This is a terrible waste of taxpayer money when we have so many other uses for it.

If you are spending close to $800 million and 20 percent of the money has to be spent on security... do you see a problem with that scenario?

With your supportive actions for enhanced practitioner education in geriatrics and pain management, as well as systems which really help coordination, I think we can simultaneously reduce the prevalence of opioid addiction.

What can we be doing, through the Medicare program, that would help with this problem of just having enough doctors that have enough time?

That happened in my family, by the way.

That would be a reasonable place for us to do the research about the average amount that is used.

We have a public health crisis that demands response both to prevent unnecessary deaths to prevent them, but also a response to meet the true pain needs, which are often untreated or undertreated.

Why are doctors not telling patients that what they are prescribing for them is addictive? What is that not said?

I am really happy to be here in Jefferson City.

Is that capability there now? In other words----