Amy Klobuchar

I think we just want to make sure that the rule will allow for normal practices of these types of businesses.

The MF Global and Peregrine abuses really hurt a lot of people in my State.

I urge you to be aggressive about that.

I'm in the neighboring state of Minnesota and we've certainly seen the effects of increased rail.

And do you think that we'll have the manufacturing capability to get those cars?

Do you think it's safer to have new tank cars or retrofitted cars?

What do you think, Mr. Hamberger, that rail companies could do to assist communities to ensure that they're properly prepared should a disaster occur?

I get very frustrated by government delay.

Do you think we have enough track inspectors out there?

The problem is just mounting, and the bill is supported by the Major Cities Police Chiefs as well as a number of Attorneys General from across the country

The whole idea here is to allow individual private users to actually protect their own data.

I introduced this bill with Senators Mikulski, Blumenthal, and Hirono, and the bill calls on the wireless carriers and manufacturers to offer a technical function to their consumers that would wipe their data and render the device useless…

I think some of those facts and figures show that it is not good enough yet, it is not effective enough yet to really discipline the prices that consumers pay.

The FCC and Congress also must act to give people more control over these tools we use to stay connected.

The FCC must do more about concentration in the wireless market, which qualifies as highly concentrated still today under DOJ guidelines.

Consumers are increasingly using their mobile subscriptions to access competing communication services.

Number portability is essential to competition, as we all know, in the wireless industry.

Your bill is aiming toward, is giving people that choice if there has been some road block...

One essential element for competition in the wireless industry is, of course, spectrum.

This type of concentration is bad for consumers.

Privacy and security are very important as mobile devices become more and more embedded in our everyday lives.

Throughout our consideration of all these issues, we must keep our focus on protecting competition and not protecting competitors.

I think that the takeaways today are that while the industry is competitive and benefiting consumers... there are still challenges.

I believe that the Spectrum Act was very clear in making sure that the auctions that are going to be conducted by the FCC catalyze systemic competition and not privilege one competitor or advantage one competitor's business plan over…

That auction is going to be, I think, very important to ensuring that, you know, there is a leveling of the playing field.