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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

I think many of them, once they knew, would stand proudly with those fighters of human rights.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

It takes 40 years of rapid economic development, not 40 weeks or 40 months.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

And patriotism and nationalism were not synonymous.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

I have to tell you, I taught American high school and college students. They don't know this story.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

What about 30-year-old and younger Chinese?

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

Democracy isn't just elections--it's freedom of the press, which can get at corruption, which is a key issue for China.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

What do we need to do? Because it is about the personal, it is about remembering those names...

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

It's critical for us to understand and it's certainly critical for us as Americans to do soul-searching of our own.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

If we do not commemorate and we do not remember those who were willing to risk all, it puts all of us at risk of history forgetting the lessons that were there.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

None of those things can happen if we don't talk about them.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

You can easily prove that grass doesn't grow. Take a chair, go out into your yard, and sit for several hours watching the grass.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

I'm fascinated by this because I see this--you mentioned something and you said never in your diplomatic career had you seen such a misnomer of the reality.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

It is so refreshing to hear the rejection of the simplistic look at things and to get at the heart of this.

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Al Franken
@alfranken· Democratic · MN· May 19, 2014

It's quite all right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· May 13, 2014

We hope to up the funding this year as we look at some of the sentencing changes.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· May 13, 2014

I am leading a COPS reauthorization bill that we are working very hard to get done.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· May 13, 2014

I was thinking one of our body stopped you from protecting your body.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· May 12, 2014

Mr. President, I rise today in support of the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014. I commend Senator Shaheen and Senator Portman on their leadership and tireless efforts to craft an energy efficiency bill that is good…

Congressional Record · 2014-05-12