Amy Klobuchar

I was trying to do the right thing to protect the integrity of the system.

Senator Sessions is going to give his opening statement.

The first question the lawyer has to ask is, is my client competent or not.

Of course. Whatever time you need.

You've got to make sure he's competent.

I hope my colleagues take seriously, on both sides of the aisle, the recommendations of this commission and it does not just become a study on a shelf.

Could you talk about the importance of getting something done on the debt in the long term for our markets and for our economy?

I just was in my State last week and we have about a 7.3 percent unemployment rate, so it's a little better than the national average.

I appreciate you speaking out on that. A number of us actually held out our votes on the budget and lifting the debt cap.

Organized retail crime costs retailers approximately $30 billion per year.

We just cannot afford to have the money bleeding off into this Medicare fraud anymore.

I have authored a bill on this with Senator Begich, the idea of digging once when counties or cities or States are tearing up a roadway.

Consumers would probably want to know not just what their speed is in a vacuum--that means nothing--

There are a number of areas where there are some obvious steps that can be taken that will lower the costs of investment, and increase the speed and the deployment of wired and wireless broadband.

We have got to find a way to get it done, as far as I am concerned.

I hope you will be looking into that as we go forward.

I Co-Chair the 911 Caucus with Senator Burr.

In his speech on January 7, the President explained that rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence, the failure on Christmas Day was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had.

I also know Secretary Napolitano has said that she has been meeting with other partners internationally about their security and how we can work together on this.

I know this is all being done for good reasons, and obviously, it is a balance with security.

You have given me your commitment that you will work with me to resolve this issue.

Do you believe that the TSA is going to be able to meet the current goal of having Secure Flight fully implemented for all domestic flights by this time, early 2010, and for all international flights by the end of this year?

I am someone with a hip replacement that gets patted down every single time.

The position of TSA Administrator, as we know, is one of the most important positions in the Administration.

I serve on the Commerce Committee with Senator Dorgan. I thank him for his leadership. During the time we waited and dithered and didn't get this done--not you but others--have other countries modernized their air traffic control systems?