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Claire McCaskill

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Claire McCaskill is an American politician and attorney who served as the United States Senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019. She was the first woman elected to the Senate from Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, McCaskill focused on issues such as healthcare, military support, and government accountability during her tenure in the Senate. She played a significant role in various legislative efforts and was known for her outspoken views on military contracting and defense spending.

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Jul 28, 2015

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.

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Jul 28, 2015

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

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Jul 28, 2015

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?

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Jul 28, 2015

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

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Jul 28, 2015

We hope the aggregate data and analysis will provide useful information to policymakers as they work on possible legislative and administrative initiatives.

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Jul 27, 2015

What percentage of the guards at embassies around the world are foreign contractors versus Marines?

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Jul 22, 2015

I have a tendency to like focusing on areas that maybe do not get enough focus.

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Jul 22, 2015

We need to understand how the State Department is getting a green light on a security training facility that is going to cost $170 million extra because they want it close to D.C.

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Jul 22, 2015

This just would not happen in the private sector; it would not happen.

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Jul 22, 2015

If this were private sector, this would be failure.

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Jul 22, 2015

I am going to withhold judgment on your confirmation until I get a date.

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Jul 22, 2015

Contractors are making a lot of money off this deal, and I just do not sense that there is urgency.

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Jul 22, 2015

I know we needed something to happen quickly. But to hire a company that has that kind of track record on a sole-source basis?

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Jul 21, 2015

I am puzzled why this is not something you are curious about.

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Jul 21, 2015

I appreciate so much the work you do and the audits you produce. This was a good one and I think we have made some progress today.

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Jul 21, 2015

Thank you. I want to turn it to Senator Carper who is visiting our Committee today, but he is welcome because this audit, he was one of the primary requesters of this audit.

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Jul 21, 2015

I think the people at GAO could help you with this. They are very good at it.

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Jul 21, 2015

Well, you know, it was interesting. I had the same experience when I asked the people at Immigration, Customs Enforcement, how many employers they had prosecuted for hiring--knowingly hiring illegal immigrants when I first came to the…

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Jul 21, 2015

Well, is anybody compiling the cases around the country of Medicare fraud that are brought and the dollar amounts they represent?

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Jul 21, 2015

If I am fraudulently registering as a Medicare provider and somebody calls me and I lie about the address, or if someone calls me or I failed to report that I have lost my medical license in New Hampshire and I am currently in Mississippi…

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Jul 21, 2015

I think you can also appreciate that it looks a little bit like circling the wagons and gosh, this really is not that big a problem, and I think we do have a problem when something as simple as checking addresses is not being done by the…

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Jul 21, 2015

I think it is true in many, many states in our country, that young people are turning to heroin because it is so cheap.

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Jul 21, 2015

Thank you so much, Chairman Collins.

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Jul 21, 2015

This information, and I think the point was made very clearly in this audit, it is a good audit

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Jul 21, 2015

Why in the world we have a contractor that did not integrate this into their software check is beyond me

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