Claire McCaskill

It is frustrating to me, strategic sourcing. I do not know why this is hard for government.

We need to invest, and we need to invest in the right research.

We cannot do it without your help.

I was surprised to learn from your testimony that the diagnosis and treatment of patients with dementia is not a routine part of the clinical training for most health care providers.

I want the advocates to work on realizing that it is time to hold everyone's feet to the fire regardless of their party.

I think there is--the stereotype is harming the Medicaid program.

Nothing could be further from the truth, particularly when it relates to long-term care in this country.

It will not be my colleague, Susan Collins, that will be in favor of that, but there will be some.

It seems to me that not funding research is dumb because it is going to cost us a lot of money and refusing to fund care is cruel.

What would you have done if those Medicaid services were not available?

The budget that we are currently debating cuts Medicaid by another $400 billion in this country.

Let's talk a little bit about the reality of Medicaid in this equation.

I am worried for our country and for families like Ms. Stemley's because the budget we are currently debating does massive cuts to Medicaid.

It is democracy at its finest hour as far as I am concerned.

The gas tax in Missouri hasn't been raised in over 20 years.

We have a real problem with Jefferson City with the amount of resources that are going toward this critical infrastructure.

I really need a commitment from you all today that you will get me the information as to why this is--why me trying to help veterans who maybe have been exposed to mustard gas--why this should be so hard.

It does us no good to give them things if they cannot sustain it.

I've been waiting since July for evidence to back up your claim that there was justification for the $36 million, 64,000 square-foot building in Afghanistan.

I would like to see those instituted and I would like a discussion from you about whether or not it makes sense to continue the Lifeline program.

I want to begin by associating myself with Commissioner Pai's remarks about designated entities, and we've visited about this.

So let us assume that we could do something legislatively. Would you see any reason why we could not put a secure website up with this information that was properly encrypted and properly pass-coded that would share this information?

This is an agency which has outgrown its usefulness and purpose, and for some reason, we have a really hard time shutting down agencies like that.

It seems bizarre to me that we are not focusing on a priority of a policy that would make this information available to others easily and at as little expense as possible since the taxpayers are paying the bill no matter where this is…

I think transparency in that area is really the key, so that people can compare.