Amy Klobuchar

I have no doubt about the damages. I am just wondering if people believe some extra protection would help them.

Every percentage point we lose of tourism costs us 170,000 jobs in this country.

Thank you very much, Senator Lautenberg.

A few weeks ago, I actually went down to the Gulf and saw firsthand the scope of the disaster.

I wanted to talk to you about the status of that case with Ovation.

I want to thank him for his leadership--I am a cosponsor--that would make these pay-for-delay agreements... presumptively illegal.

When companies are clearly trying to do something about what may be perceived or is anticompetitive conduct, they are taking measures on their own, do you take that into account when you decide whether to investigate?

I was frustrated--I know many of us were--that this should have been part of the health care bill also.

It is a step in the right direction.

I just think we have to protect the taxpayers from taking those risks, because it was not their decision to go down 5,000 feet and take this risk.

We want them to do their work, but we want them to do the right thing and be incentivized not to cause damages to the taxpayers.

I keep going back to is whether or not BP would have acted so recklessly if it knew that there was not a $75 million limit.

We will do everything we can to help your family.

But isn't this the one that you just told Senator Durbin has the $1.6 billion in it, and we are looking at over almost $10 billion for this right now.

I want to look at it. But it does not--I know they have to get insurance, but I have not heard that they have the protection of these liability caps.

If we are unable to be doing this retroactively, who do you think is going to pay for this $8, $10 billion that BP caused damages?

I remember part of the discussion we had during that hearing was that that merger could usher in a wave of consolidation in the aviation industry.

Just as technology and software is upgraded, our laws have to be upgraded as well.

I think everyone feels those frustrations, and you more than others.

It's time to change the rules of the road and place the consumers in the driver's seat.

I am pleased that the President has called for the creation of an independent panel along the lines of the Three Mile Island Commission.

The American people first want to know how and when the disaster will end.

It was clear to me, people in this horrible tragedy, that never should have happened, were working as well as they could together.

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