Claire McCaskill is a Democrat from Missouri about to take her place in the federal Senate for the first time. As far as I am concerned she is more qualified to sit in Washington than most; instead of being a lawyer she is an auditor, having served as Missouri’s state auditor.

I know a lot about federal programs. I know how badly they behave. It’s not very sexy, but . . . the [Government Accountability Office] is going to love me as a senator. My office is actually going to read their audits.

Astounding. I hope she can get others on board, but she’ll be fighting a lot of pet projects up there in Washington.

As senator, agency efficiency is “the most important priority I have: making government work for less money,” McCaskill says. The first way she’ll do that, she says, is to read the GAO reports gathering dust around Capitol Hill.

Agencies, beware. Overlooked GAO reports such as “BLM’s Program for Issuing Individual Indian Allotments on Public Lands Is No Longer Viable” and “Incidents at DoD Mail Facilities Exposed Problems That Require Further Actions” could make a comeback.

Good luck, Claire McCaskill.