Claire McCaskill

You're getting a free phone, but we can't keep your records in order to audit later to make sure that you are eligible.

But we're going to have a hearing and I would look forward to your cooperation on deceptive advertising.

We're never going to get the fraud out as long as you're allowing these companies to incentivize people that they make more money the more people they sign up.

America's telecommunications providers are not the problem.

Our job is to do oversight. Our job is to hold your feet to the fire. Our job is to make you accountable, and we are going to do that.

$5.2 million sounds like a reasonable number in the grand scheme of numbers that I look at constantly at the Department of Defense.

This is going to be ridiculously hard for you, because we are like a dog with a bone on this stuff.

I think you all understand, in this environment, if Congress does not start seeing an increase in the numbers of remains identified, that the money will go away.

Why do we not just hire really good archaeologists and scientists?

I just think it would be helpful if you had the same boss.

I have to tell you that as I began preparing for this hearing, echoes of Arlington began resonating with me.

I think there are three major areas that I would like to try to get covered today.

I think that families should get whatever information that you have, because they deserve this.

I feel a sense of urgency about getting accurate information to these families as quickly as possible.

I believe that Senator McCaskill had asked you about the report itself.

I do not like the idea that one Department of government is paying another Department of government an 18 percent hit.

Wherever it is 'nesting,' we want it hatched.

Just because it has always been done that way does not mean it is the right way to do it.

So why do you not just do the Fellows directly and save the 18 percent?

You have a choice when you are a leader. You can either lead by making the other guy look bad and, therefore, you look better, or you can lead by giving the other guy credit and communicating and then everyone does better.

I can assure you that Senator Ayotte and I will do it for you if you cannot do it yourself.

The only person you have in common that you report to is, in fact, Secretary Hagel, is that correct?

What can you tell me about plans to change this ridiculous organizational structure that is supposed to be working on a very focused problem?

But we want to get this fixed so that our successors years from now are not saying, well, why were these Senators so lame?

Get it frickin' done.