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.
It is the Constitution that gives Congress this authority under the 14th and 15th Amendments to protect against voting discrimination.
It seems to me that trying to enact changes that courts have found to be discriminatory clearly goes against the spirit of our democracy.
I have seen how this can work, and I have seen what happens when people are encouraged to vote.
These are complicated matters. They are very important to consumers, and we look forward to working on this in the months to come.
I am going to fight hard for my customers to make sure that they are getting a fair deal.
You know, as we talk about this consolidation and some of the issues you raised, you do start to think, and we know we have had a lot of innovation in the last few years, and from some major companies, but at what point is it enough?
One of the things that people are really focused on--and certainly we asked a lot of questions in the last hearing on the Comcast merger--is what is going to happen with the prices for consumers.
I think we are done here, and this has been a very good hearing with a lot of good questions.
In 2012, it added $1,200 a number that will grow to $2,700--the benefits to each household.
This horrific crime has emerged as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world, behind only trafficking of guns and trafficking of drugs.
So I would just think, I just got to tell you that my in-laws use, I don't think they use Twitter. They're in their 70s, but I know that all of my daughter's friends use Twitter and they all use Facebook and they're very adept on social…
I just want to conclude in my closing argument, as a former prosecutor, so what you have here are 2 million kids and growing...
I got to tell you, just having an 18 year old, just because they have alcohol names on them, they think those things are cool.
Almost 2 million kids have tried these e-cigarettes. That's a problem right there.
I don't understand why when regular cigarettes, they can't have flavors; right? Is that correct? They've been banned from having flavors?
That's why I introduced a bipartisan bill with Senator John Hoeven that would add 100 STEM high schools and strengthen partnerships between employers and technical and community colleges.
Empowering workers, especially women, should be a common goal of both Democrats and Republicans.
The national unemployment rate is 6.3 percent, the lowest level in five-and-a-half years.
Job growth has continued to strengthen, with the private sector gaining jobs for the past 51 months.





