Claire McCaskill

Too often, this appears to be an unfair and deceptive practice that is harming everyday businesses, consumers, and startups.

I think one of the most revealing things this morning is the realization that while an arrest report may be part of a background check, there is not a requirement that the underlying police report be obtained.

I thought that Senator Coburn did a great job on television last night talking about the damage this does to the many honest, hard-working, meritorious claims and honest, hard-working ALJs, and honest, hard-working lawyers that are…

Clearly this report, it gets my heart beating a little faster, as a former prosecutor, because I guarantee you, you put some good--we have had some good investigators on it that work for this Committee, but you put some good prosecutors on…

Well, that is depressing.

I swore as a young lawyer that if I ever had the chance to influence the selection of judges that would sit in trial courts, I would make sure that they had been in the trenches.

He was a warrior for ethics legislation. He succeeded. In fact, he earned the nickname during our time together in the legislature as 'The Bulldog of Ethics.'

I am very proud of his ethics, his integrity. He has a Midwest work ethic.

I highly recommend to this Committee the confirmation of Doug Harpool for a trial judge in the Western District of the State of Missouri.

When it came time for me to pick someone to stand in as my opponent in debate preparation, I said, 'Go get Doug Harpool.'

I want to make sure the part where people enjoy hearing crickets don't get left behind.

We are in desperate need of more investment in my state

We're number 10 on the list of deficient bridges

I do think it's important.

I'm very supportive of the Chairman and Ranking Member's outline of their legislation that they are proposing, but I do think it's important that we're very candid with the American people about what this is.

But we are the ones that have it. We have the architecture. Why have we not modeled it out?

I want to know what your competitors are paying for the----

I guess what I am worried about is that we are not seeing them as a competitor, that we are seeing them as a customer.

I obviously have come out strong for 7-day delivery. I believe it is a competitive advantage we have.

I want them to charge them more because they are using something we have and we would gain a competitive advantage by charging them more.

But they are using you because you are cheaper than them doing it themselves.

Exactly right. And, Mr. Donahoe, what I am asking you to do is what any business would do.

I do not sense that you are exacting a competitive advantage based on the fact that we have made the investment.

I also have concerns about online privacy, although I come at this from the perspective that I don't think the American public realizes that they're getting content for free because the monetization of the Internet occurred through…

Would you be willing to look at a rule that would prohibit companies from incentivizing salespeople based on how many people they sign up for the program?