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Spotlight: McCaskill condemns DoD 'entourages'
Attention Defense Department officials: Do not show up to a meeting with Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) with support staff. During a March 29 hearing of the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on readiness and management support, which she chairs, McCaskill criticized what she called an "entourage culture" among top Pentagon officials. McCaskill asked everyone in the hearing room who worked for the department to raise their hand. "That's a lot!" she exclaimed."I mean, I have hearings with a lot of different federal agencies, and typically they don't bring as many people to meetings, or to hearings," she said. "I'm trying to figure out what all these people do and why they all need to be here at one time. It seems to me that there could be efficiencies if they could be doing other jobs right now besides sitting in this hearing room," she added. "I've got a hit list of things like that," she said.
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