Amy Klobuchar

Yet there is still so little known about the disease, its causes, or treatments.

Before we consider policy changes, we need to understand the latest science.

As a mother of a 15-year-old daughter and as the Chair of this Subcommittee, protecting our children from exposure to harmful substances is an issue that is extremely important to me.

But I wanted to focus on something I know Senator Whitehouse talked about a little, and that is, cyber crime and cybersecurity.

Public-private partnership is vital to the development of a comprehensive, innovative solution that improves and expands our Nation's capabilities

I am going to use--one example is a bill that I am introducing in the next few days, a bipartisan bill on the stalker bill, and this is called the Stalking Act of 2010.

We are at the tip of the iceberg with some of these things we are seeing recently

I wanted to start out by commending your agents for the great work they did on that Tom Petters case.

I appreciate that. And I just hope we can continue to work on this issue to see if there's a way we can just highlight those safety links so these kids know what to do, because these are just kids.

We appreciate the jobs that you have brought, all of you, to our country, in this development, here.

We're trying to give adults that--on that computer more information about what their kids have put on there.

It's our duty to be here to say, 'We need to do something better here.'

Senator Thune and I have a bill to try to address it.

I hope all your companies will support these changes.

I think we all know that we can also make errors here, and we want to make sure that whatever we do in response to the spill with looking at the liability statutes, there clearly improvements that need to be made, that we do the right…

I know that those were not included, the assets of the license and the boats.

Did the oil spill affect the ability of the local government to deliver services?

I will take away from this hearing and others is that, you know, some of these things we are going to have to--we will not know for sure the effect on dolphins off the coast or the effect on birds in Minnesota when they go down there.

Given Mr. Feinberg's experience with the 9/11 victims, hopefully that will not happen in this case.

How does a local economy that is organized almost entirely around one network of jobs recover from the spill?

OPA 90 does not allow recovery for the permits or the boats.

Thank you. We are going to open the hearing again, and thank you for waiting.

Tomorrow will mark 100 days from the time the BP oil spill began with the tragic explosion on the Deepwater Horizon.

As we all know, on April 20th, tragedy struck in the Gulf of Mexico.

I also note that your son is there behind you.