Amy Klobuchar
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Amy Jean Klobuchar is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota since 2007. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she has focused on issues such as healthcare, infrastructure, and technology during her tenure. Klobuchar has been recognized for her bipartisan efforts and has played a significant role in various legislative initiatives, including those aimed at improving access to healthcare and addressing climate change.
And then is there going to be some kind of a metric used to decide what is customer convenience or where it goes?
The investigation into the General Motors ignition switch defect issue paints a picture of a company that for years showed indifference in the face of mounting evidence of risk and of danger.
This is a tragedy that cannot happen again, and I'm dedicated to making sure that we make the changes we need to make to assure that.
Can you assure the plaintiffs that they will have equal opportunity to compensation regardless of whether and when GM went through bankruptcy?
Concerns have been raised by some safety groups about the documentation required, that it may be too burdensome.
I think we all know that has been a major focus here, to respond to inquiries, to work with NHTSA.
Not one of the Committees considering a fix for the switch, which were filled with engineers and business people whose job was to understand how GM's cars were built and how different systems of the cars interact, ever reclassified the…
Consolidation does not necessarily mean that it is bad, but I think a lot of the concern is what is the tipping point
As many of our witnesses know, I chair the Antitrust Subcommittee of Judiciary, so we have held hearings for both the--lengthy hearings--Comcast/Time Warner's merger as well as the AT&T/DIRECTV merger.
I view it the only way we really do this is with some kind of comprehensive tax reform.
Yet still in our State, and across the country, we see families that are struggling to make ends meet.
I do not believe that means our people lose wages or jobs. I want to grow the pie larger.
I think it's the top one percent families have grown seven times more in their incomes than the average family.
Well that was in the recent Senate bill, the bipartisan bill that passed, that actually reduced a number of these programs to get more money out there in the field to the states.
I believe it's everything we've been talking about, with making sure we have the incentives in place for companies to stay here.
That kind of compassion... defied what had become of so many of these big sports games.
I think you know how if we get these tourists in, they spend an average of $4,500 when they come into our country.





