Claire McCaskill

We heard about the inability of enforcement agencies to keep up with this game of whack-a-mole that phone scams have become, and pleas for help from consumers, that their providers please help them by offering technologies that will block…

We must do more to protect consumers from these unwanted calls.

There you go. You may not need anybody else to file complaints to catch the bad guys because Ms. Blase is back on it.

You are barely, barely getting the tip of the iceberg in terms of these complaints.

If there is one topic that comes up frequently with Missourians when I am talking to them, it really is, 'Can you not do anything about the robocalls? I am on the Do Not Call List. Why can you not get them to stop?'

I have a feeling that if all of a sudden over the Christmas holidays, everyone starts learning there is no more Amtrak service in Missouri, that is going to be a big deal.

Are we not going to have to start putting some people in jail? I mean, the people that are doing this, the reason it is whack-a-mole is because they do not fear any authority at this point. They are fearless of authorities.

I watched my mother get victimized when she thought she was being called by Medicare and it was really a company called Med Care that was robocalling her and lying to her about whether or not they had talked to her doctor.

What happens if we do not extend the deadline of December 2015?

As Senator McCaskill indicated, by a significant margin, is about unwanted and illegal telemarketing calls.

Usually, American companies are so smart about marketing. I do not get why all their marketers are so dumb on this. It is just amazing to me.

I know that I can speak for Senator Blunt in this regard, that both of us stand ready to be helpful anyway we can.

Unfortunately, as Senator McCaskill told us a minute ago, it often becomes as frustrating as the old arcade game whack-a-mole.

Well, I feel like I am handcuffed because we do not have TSA here.

If you want them walking around the airport, a perfect place to walk around the airport and be among the airport is waiting in line with all the passengers.

We keep cutting the amount of money they have.

You have no evidence right now that shows that contracted TSA is either cheaper or better, correct?

We are going to create a $40 billion slush fund in the Department of Defense, but yet we are going to shortchange port security, airport security, cybersecurity, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), FBI.

I want to keep following up on this magnetometer.

Isn't that better security also, because aren't they commingling with the passengers, with more opportunities, with eyes and ears

Should they not be required to stand in line with everybody else and commingle?

I think everyone needs to understand that there is a price to be paid for us continuing to cut and cut and cut the domestic side of Homeland Security.

I will not rest, I will not stop until we know every salary of every IG in our government. It is a scandal.

Isn't the biggest danger to the homeland the ability of this extreme jihad viewpoint being transferred to Americans?

I want to just put on the record that I, for one, am going to be watching very carefully about any potential retaliation against any of the men or women that may have come forward with allegations.