Claire McCaskill

We must ensure that our healthcare system works for everyone, especially our seniors.

I think it would be.

We are short-changing our country in a dramatic fashion when it comes to infrastructure, and that includes our airways.

Those are privatized for-profits. Are we advocating going to for-profits?

I do not think a new structure is the silver bullet.

It is interesting. I do not know how we ensure we get better management by just changing the structure.

I do think we need to go back and look and see how we began distributing scooters with reckless abandon.

I think all of us are motivated at this point to see if we cannot push this envelope.

A huge proportion of the Medicaid dollars that are spent in this country are not spent on struggling families who are not working but, rather, are spent on our seniors who are in nursing homes

I want to try to deliver this to as many people as possible. I think in the long run not only does it help their lives, but it helps us struggle with how we are going to make sure our grandchildren are not inheriting a debt that they…

Helping our seniors remain in their communities and age with dignity is an important issue and a top priority of this Committee.

We must leverage technology to ensure our seniors can live independently.

I think we have got to start monetizing these savings as quickly as possible, because the more quickly we can monetize them, the more quickly we can begin adopting them as part of public policy preferences.

The more quickly we can get this technology to the point that you do not have to have--I mean, most of us do not have a trusted tech adviser.

There is a real disconnect between the number of seniors who say they want to stay in their homes and communities and the number of seniors who end up having to move to nursing homes.

The American people should be done with this. We need a bill. I mean, just give us a bill that we can disagree on.

It is clear to me that the only thing that they are going to do is a patch.

Some of us believe that some of those groups have selective scoring.

I would really appreciate it if you would give this Committee a brief of where we are in terms of going after the businesses that are knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

I think that might be much cheaper than what we are doing now with these detention centers.

I support mandatory E-Verify.

So if you are a mother in those countries and you have a coyote telling you that you can keep your child safe, I just think it is important that that go on the record, because this is not about people sitting around and making a political…

I have been yelling about since I got here, since the day I got here, even with your predecessor, Mr. Chertoff, was when I arrived in the Senate in 2011, your Department could not tell me how many businesses had been prosecuted for…

If we are all going to talk about the border being about our defense, then it seems to me we have to make sure you are in that slush fund, too.

I think you ought to make a request to the leadership of the House and the Senate that you be included in the overseas contingency operating budget.