Amy Klobuchar

I've actually heard a trail of tears in my state about this problem.

I think we all could be doing more to improve accuracy of credit reports.

Our role in Congress, as Representative Delaney has pointed out, is really to put forward some policies that will encourage that growth.

The jobs, as we all know, and I think everyone up here agreed, come out of the private sector.

I appreciate that, because I don't think anyone has said it is not both things. It is both things.

Some of our high-tech companies are actually opening up there simply because at this moment they do not have the people they can find.

My hope is that we can spend the bulk of our time this morning focusing on solutions for helping more of America's long-term unemployed get back to work.

The truth is that, for most workers, the job market is better today than it has been in years.

Thank you very much, Chairman, and thank you, Senator Rubio, for holding this hearing. Very important.

We know, with sequestration, there may be furloughs, or are furloughs with some of your personnel.

I appreciate that you're willing to devote the personnel with some hard budget times that I hope will change if we can get a deal here going.

I have been so impressed by your work, and you can imagine that some people still get concerned about what this could mean for American jobs with the guest worker agreement.

If there had to be city walls, the walls had doors, and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.

Very good. Going after fraud and abuse in Government programs is extremely important, including in the immigration area.

I think the bill does an excellent job of putting more resources at the border and specifying resources to be used in a Stonegarden type of arrangement with our State and local law enforcement authorities along the border.

I think that immigrants tend to bring with them new ideas, new entrepreneurialism.

We want to focus on allowing American companies to grow here and add jobs here.

I think the first thing that we seldom talk about is that we need the workforce.

I believe that the new tax and fee revenues that will be generated by this immigration reform will help us fund those services and thereby strengthen our Government.

Anything we can do through the immigration laws to assist them with that process really is going to inure to the benefit of our communities.

I personally would prefer what was in the I-Squared Act.

I head up the Travel Caucus, and we have done some great things with speeding up visa times.

We did keep the U-visa program in there and extended it to also stalking victims, which was important.

I think that is something where we have all been talking about in the past week the difference of actually knowing who is here and being able to get that information which really eludes us right now.

Last year a bipartisan group of Senators including myself introduced the JOLT Act which modernizes and expands the visa waiver program, reduces visa wait times.