Amy Klobuchar

You have to show that you're talking----

We need tax reform, and we need higher tax rates on upper income households.

My colleague, Senator Coburn, said yesterday that in the near term he would rather see rates go up for the wealthiest Americans...

I worked to include university commercialization reports in the COMPETES Reauthorization Act.

We'll need to better equip American students and workers with the skills and training they need to succeed in the job market.

What we need to be now is a country that makes things again. . .be a country with a competitive edge. . .a country that thinks, that invents, and that exports to the world.

I have to go preside over the Senate.

I was a co-sponsor of the original COMPETES Act and continue to support its mission and goals, which are critical to strengthening our economy and keeping our country competitive on the world state.

I do not think it would have happened without you and all of these great things you have done for the country.

This calls for an increased emphasis on STEM education--the critical science, technology, engineering, and math courses that are essential to innovation.

This calls for a renewed focus on exporting, so that more of our businesses can reach the 95 percent of world customers who live outside our borders.

It's forecast that it's something like $300 million and some a year in Minnesota.

Our decision is made easier by the fact that the underlying issue is not only one that Congress may be better qualified to resolve, but also one that Congress has the ultimate power to resolve.

We're clearly seeing, as Representative Cummings' chart showed and Senator Rockefeller's investigation has shown, that there are people that are gouging.

I got involved in this issue a few years ago and introduced the first bill on this in the Senate on drug shortage.

If we see a case of a 750 percent markup in cost that we have a problem.

It's bad enough that we have the shortages. It's even worse to think that there are people who are preying on those shortages and making money off of them.

I just don't think we should be spending it on that.

I come from a State that actually we have the highest voter turnout, I think we were number two for the census the last time.

As people feel increasingly distanced from their Government, from their courts, I think it is a major problem, and so much of it is ours to fix.

I think it is important, and students want to know how Government works, how their city works, their county, their State, the Nation.

If Congress sits here, and the FTC does, push it toward being an opt-in mechanism, you fundamentally change the nature of the Internet.

What about considerations for mobile devices that collect data, like smart phones and tablets?

Consumers do take privacy seriously. And they do feel that this is an important consideration for them as they browse the Internet.

So you would find some way to extend the opt-out principles and give the same options to those that have the small screens, such as tablets or smart phones.