Amy Klobuchar

Let's be very clear about what these deals are all about.

This bill that Senator Grassley and I have that has bipartisan support would not affect the vast majority of the drug settlements

I just want to again thank you for your work.

American consumers and American taxpayers lose out on lower-cost generic drugs to the tune of billions of dollars each year.

Thank you very much.

I wanted to say a special greeting to Honeywell who is going to be present, a company with a major presence in my State.

I have a bill that actually Senator Hoeven is on to require the refineries to tell the Department of Energy when they are going to close down.

I have long believed there are speculation issues.

Just the last thing I wanted to focus on is, I think, both Professor Levitt and Commissioner Weinberg, I liked some of the reasons you put forth for why Section 2 was not enough and why we need to look deeper in that, because one of the…

I care a lot about this, having been a prosecutor for 8 years and actually enforced our election laws in the State of Minnesota.

I actually was looking at how we could get more people to vote, and you can call it whatever you want, but I think when people are waiting in these lines, we have problems.

48 years after that march across the bridge in Selma, the white police chief in Montgomery took his badge off and handed it to Congressman Lewis and apologized.

We have seen that progress, that great dramatic drop from 12.1 to 9.9 percent.

We appreciate the work of Mr. Fowke and other companies, and the Chamber in making a huge effort in putting the word out there that they want to hire vets.

But it is still higher than our national unemployment rate.

9.9 percent is still too high for our post-9/11 vet.

I think new energy is always good.

I think we know, as Congressman Paulsen has pointed out, some of this is tied obviously to the overall economy.

I am cosponsor of the Free Flow of Information Act--I was the first time it was introduced, and I am now--to protect the freedom of the press.

I first wish to thank the Gang of 8 and our Judiciary Committee for their work. As was discussed in the last few minutes, there has been an incredible amount of patience and hard work that has gone into this bill, and I am very hopeful we…

It was a clear, good vote for our new Commerce Secretary. We are very excited about that vote, 97 to 1. I am going to speak to that, but before I do, I yield to my colleague from the State of Louisiana, Senator Landrieu, for 2 minutes.

However, when you look at our tax system, with the fact that we play red light/green light, that it is too complex, we actually rank 69th out of 185 in that subcategory.

I think it would really take a very small amount of money to set up a regulatory look-back organization say that could be housed in CBO, or it could be independent, but modeled after the CBO.

I appreciate that, and I also appreciate the information that has been put out to show the number of terrorist attacks that have been averted.

I just think we are at the point where we have 2,400 agents who deserve a permanent head.