Amy Klobuchar

I recognize that absent direct statutory authority to go after these aiders and abettors, the FTC has developed alternative assistance legal theories to reach secondary actors.

I really appreciated the way the FTC pursued the Ovation case in Minnesota when I brought it to your attention.

The FTC's authority and ability to protect consumers should not be eroded or made unclear.

I think that is why the Senators from Louisiana are supportive of this bill. And they know we need to move quickly.

Senator Crapo and I have a bill that has vast bipartisan support.

I do think, unlike with the lead situation, the Consumer Products Safety Commission is acting quickly.

Thank you for convening this important hearing. This is the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights. That is a name that we take seriously.

I would like to add, if I could, that if you look at the countries that are exporting the most panels worldwide, they are the ones that typically have the best domestic markets.

What would be some of the things that would be helpful in terms of getting our--we have been importing so many products, whether it is wind or solar, from other places--getting our manufacturing going and then have us start exporting…

The sooner we can get them over, the better.

I just wanted to impress on you, one, to thank you for what you're doing, but, two, how important it is for these families.

I appreciate the front-line work that you and Secretary Clinton have done.

I want to say that your staff has been very helpful today.

I think coordinating with some of the airlines would also be a good idea just from what I am hearing.

There have been a lot of discussions with my colleagues about the watchlist. I actually have been concerned about this for a while.

I think you and I talked about this before, and it is the computer systems that do not always work the way they should.

I am confident we found that person in Audrey Fleissig and I'm proud to have a chance to introduce her this morning.

When a judicial nominee from Indiana comes before this Committee, our colleagues can be confident that the name being put forward enjoys bipartisan support.

If confirmed, Judge Tanya Walton Pratt would be our State's first African-American Federal judge.

It was my hope that Judge Tinder's confirmation would serve as an example of the benefits of nominating qualified, non-ideological jurists to the Federal bench.

Well, that's very good because I have the Norwegian ambassador out in the hallway and we are doing a call-in to Minnesota because we couldn't make it there for an event for Vice President Mondale.

I hope that both will be confirmed and that their appointments as Federal judges will inspire Hoosier children of all backgrounds to pursue their dreams.

This process has too often been consumed by ideological conflict and partisan acrimony.

I hope that, going forward, other Senators will adopt what I call 'the Hoosier approach' of working across party lines to select consensus nominees.

I think children are a particularly vulnerable population, requiring that early detection just as much as, or if not more, than others.