Amy Klobuchar

I think people learned, especially 9/11, the importance of exchanging information and having people aware of things.

Today, we are going to focus on the oversight of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which is the largest coalition of Federal, state and local partners ever assembled in this country's history to combat fraud.

When you hear stories of companies that may be compiling what they call 'sucker lists' about consumers... that's a problem.

I think we all know that there's some line in the sand here.

The House bill passed by the Ryan budget would actually cut commodity programs by $30 billion and conservation programs by $18 billion over 10 years.

Livestock producers are really the original value-added agricultural product.

If we can work it out, it could be a win-win to everyone.

The investments in voluntary conservation are actually working?

I saw time and again how good meaning programs can sometimes be abused if the wrong people get a hold of money.

The purpose of our recommendation and the legislation that you introduced, as I understand it, is to essentially make streaming, distribution by streaming, a felony the way that traditional forms of distribution have been for many years.

I am very focused on how to protect that intellectual property.

We lose something like $600 billion a year to people, whether they are in China or they set up shop as organized crime to steal our intellectual property.

A lot of that has to do with manufacturing.

Thank you, Senator, for your commitment to manufacturers.

I truly believe the way that we are going to get out of this downturn is by making stuff again, by exporting to the world, by thinking again.

I have been working in the area of some of the streaming issues to try to come up with a way...

We no longer are competing in a vacuum in this country.

The Commerce Secretary is in a unique position to do that.

I think that we're going to lose a real opportunity in this country if we don't pursue a competitive agenda for America.

I believe that we must maintain the ability of farmers to band together to market their products and manage their risk.

Frankly, the CFTC was required by law to implement position limits by legislation adopted by this Congress, passed in January.

Bringing transparency and accountability to this market is essential, and that is why I am glad we are having this oversight hearing.

Again, we just hope our colleagues will look at this bill. It is a serious bill and very different than other bills that have been proposed in the past, and it actually takes existing money that was set out for the end of this year and…

I thank the Chair. (The remarks of Ms. Klobuchar and Mr. Thune pertaining to the introduction of S. 1185 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'') The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). The…

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