"There’s a group of guys in a back room somewhere that are making these decisions"

McCaskill wasn’t satisfied with that answer, and she made sure everyone in the room knew it:

“[W]e heard you, Mr. Secretary, just say, ‘We’d love your support.’ For what? We don’t even know. We have no idea what’s being proposed. There’s a group of guys in a back room somewhere that are making these decisions. There were no hearings in the House.”