The one disagreement -- over whether to take prosecutions out of the military chain of command -- was the one "shiny object".
At one point, she took prosecution lawyer Adrian Mopp to task, saying: "This is day 20 of the trial and the State is still scurrying around".
"Where we would like to see more action by councils is taking prosecutions against these people".
Downing Street said that of 59 cases which Ihat has looked at so far, only one was referred to the director of service prosecutions, who decided not to take a prosecution forward.
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Take the prosecution of Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to death this year for the shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015.
The largest difference between their proposals was whether to take the prosecution of such cases out of the military command structure, as supported by Gillibrand but opposed by McCaskill.
A spokesperson for the Labor Department said by email that the "government and the community will not tolerate any abuse of FDHs, and will thoroughly investigate into all reported cases and promptly take out prosecution if there is sufficient evidence".
"To date we have not needed to take any prosecutions and have received very few complaints all of which have been successfully resolved through informal correspondence".
However, he added that "the feasibility of actually taking a prosecution through the courts using remote sensing [on its own] is still questioned by the Foreign Office" and the technology would still require boats in the water.
