Amy Klobuchar

The STB is now listening to our shippers, examining anti-competitive issues, and considering next steps.

We do consider numerous nominees, but it's not too often that we welcome one of our own before us.

I just urge you to move on that as soon as possible.

I have worked very hard in the area of international adoptions, and with the help of your department and the help of Senator Sessions and Senator Inhofe, we were able to pass a really ground-breaking bill last year.

I wanted to thank you for your leadership on rail across the country.

I wanted to ask about your view of the RTP and what you see as its future?

The Recreational Trails Program is very popular in our state.

We now have 28 percent of crashes that are caused by people talking or texting on their cell phones in this country.

Teen drivers are three times more likely to be in fatal accidents than adults.

For me, the number one obligation here is safety, and that includes bridges like the I-35W that went down.

But in the end, what guided us to get this America Invents Act on this floor was the fact that innovation is so important to our economy, that the protection of ideas in America is what built our economy over the years. Independent…

I thank the Senator from Utah for his strong statement of support for the America Invents Act, a bill that is, at its heart, all about moving our economy forward. When we think about the brass tacks of our country, we think about ideas, we…

I worked to include language that would authorize the CFTC to regulate companies that act as both swap dealers and end users.

There is concern that these farmer co-ops will face additional regulations because of your work.

I am the co-chair with Senator Thune of the bipartisan Congressional Farmer Co-op Caucus.

We could see what happened when we did not have enough staff with some of the problems we have incurred in this country.

I think you are more than qualified to do this job based on your background.

It seems clear to me that a lot of the witnesses have pointed to the address information as the key and an acknowledgment of these privacy concerns

I truly believe there has got to be a way to work this one out.

Maybe we can do both.

We believe that the law should be modified to allow for the disclosure of this information to law enforcement in missing and exploited child cases.

I know Senator Klobuchar has introduced the Access to Information about Missing Children Act to help law enforcement get limited taxpayer identity information from the IRS.

I just do not understand why we would say it is OK to have those exceptions for student loans to track them down but not for missing children.

We plan to introduce legislation that will make the penalties for streaming the same as it is for selling the DVDs on the street.

Of course it would, Senator.