Claire McCaskill

And so now we are integrating it, so this will be in fact a one-stop shop.

Well, I think it is important with AMS, the predecessor to CGI. There was a littered history of disastrous contract work they did for States besides the Thrift Savings Plan debacle.

Has there been any discussion about trying to include contracting at the State or local level?

It is currently not defined, business integrity. Although it is mentioned many times in FAR, we cannot find a definition for it.

I guarantee you; everybody at CMS who made that contracting decision would have loved to have known this before they did.

Shouldn't there be some kind of trigger when you have a company that is new?

OK. Now I want to illustrate a basic difficulty with searching for a contractor's information.

It is hard for me to imagine that the vast majority of the past performance evaluations are even the slightest bit sensitive.

I am looking at my notes here and it says that the rule for the time period that you protect this information as source sensitive says at least 3 years.

Is there anything you need to make that go faster that we could help you with?

If it is a close argument, then they should lose, because the government is the one that is giving them money to perform a service or to provide products.

Are there any safeguards in place? Can you recommend safeguards that should be put in place for a situation like this where we have an acquisition and a name change?

I do not want to do that as a U.S. Senator. But you are terrible at it, just terrible at it.

If we could pay them more. Frankly, talk about saving money, talk about value.

I think people matter. I have said that a thousand times, and strengthening our people and the sort of things that you talked about are exactly what we need to do.

I agree that we have a real crisis.

The real way to get the value for the government is for there to be somebody competing against them for price.

I am a big believer that competition is our best friend in keeping costs down.

What happened in the Sinclair case is the prosecutor wanted to drop the serious charges.

I was very concerned about the media coverage around the Sinclair case because it was so inaccurate.

If we're going to go this opposite direction, if we're going to bust up DFAS, I think we need to be very thoughtful about it and make sure that we're not driving up the cost for the remaining branches.

I don't think there's any question about it. I guess my plea to you is I would like to be as engaged in this process as much as possible.

This is a time that I almost wish that I wasn't from St. Louis, because I'm afraid that my advocating for this very important aircraft could be seen as parochial.

I would love the opportunity to have them sitting there, to thank all of them.

I am not against aid. This thing morphed from the Commanders' Emergency Response Program to the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund.