Rookie Sen. Claire McCaskill not shy in making her presence felt

I don't know about you, but I love this lady already.

Rookie senator Claire McCaskill couldn't have planned her first Senate subcommittee hearing any better if she'd scripted it herself.

Campaigning for the Senate last fall when she was still the Missouri state auditor, she vowed to go after waste at the Pentagon. So who turns up at her maiden Armed Services subcommittee hearing but the Pentagon's inspector general, who described a culture where buildings were built without cost controls and where contracts were worked out afterward.

"When I read this, I don't know whether to laugh or cry," McCaskill told him. "Does somebody get fired when that happens?"

This is what new blood is all about.

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