Honorable Claire McCaskill
United States Senator, Missouri, Democrat
Senator McCaskill was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. She previously served as Missouri Auditor from 1999 to 2007. She sits on the following committees: Armed Services; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and the Special Committee on Aging. The following is from September 9, 2014, hearings before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on “Oversight of Federal Programs for Equipping State and Local Law Enforcement.” I first approached Chairman [Tom] Carper [DE-D] to hold this hearing because of the shock I felt as I saw events unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri, in the…
