Claire McCaskill

I guess one of the reasons I am interested is that if there was an analysis that went on on the cost of contract manufacturing...

I would really appreciate if you all could get us those numbers for Isuprel, because in February of this year, you purchased Isuprel.

The former prosecutor in me kind of went, 'What did he just say?'

So the deductibility of expenses was not sufficient to overcome the hurdle of what you would gain once you made it across the finish line in terms of the tax rate on the profits?

Senator McCaskill raised the good question earlier about a challenge for us as we look at patent boxes.

How can you do that? Because there is no competition for the drug?

So here is my worry about us really getting serious about redoing this Tax Code.

A key part of that proposed deal, as we understand it, is a new global headquarters not in the United States but in London.

But if we in the effort to lower the corporate tax rate erode our revenues we have done NIH on the cheap ever since the crisis.

We are going to try to do our best to make the United States as competitive as it should be with all the other countries...

This is how he made his reputation in the U.S. Senate, and many historians say it was his work on this Committee that vaulted him into consideration for the Vice Presidency and ultimately the Presidency of the United States.

We learned that in those two transactions alone, Valeant determined it could shave more than $3 billion off the target company's tax bills.

How do we get a handle on our entitlement debt, which is driven by and large by health care costs in Medicare.

I would love to pull back the curtain and figure out how you price that.

So the magnet was, in fact, the higher education community and the knowledge base that is in California?

We need to see what you see so we can understand how we can be more competitive.

We should do one on this, how we figure out these drugs going from--and it is happening all over the place.

This bill would end practices like this and ensure that there's consistency and that there's fairness...

This knee-jerk reaction led me to take a closer look at what was going on in my own State, and what we found was not pretty.

Senators Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand have introduced legislation--S. 590, the Campus Accountability and Safety Act--to protect students and hold institutions accountable.

The Campus Accountability and Safety Act would transform the way colleges and universities deal with this crime

These crimes are troubling to parents, students, and educators.

The University is concerned that the legislation's requirement that the confidential advisors collect and report statistics about crimes as required by the Clery Act may diminish the perceived confidentiality of the advisor.

What does it say about our schools' priorities if some colleges have tougher justice for a student cheating on an exam than for someone who has raped another student?

The price of a college education should never be the risk of a sexual assault