Amy Klobuchar

I think the background that I would bring to this position relates to the importance of the judicial community within the Violence Against Women Act.

Beat your wife and it's your kid who will go to jail.

I think we do have to have a balance.

I do appreciate your support for eliminating that disparity. I think it's very important.

I am concerned that some of the policies indicate a willingness to go too far that could create an impression that we're on the road to legalizing drugs.

We are living on borrowed time.

Maybe you guys could use that as a marketing thing, 'trade-match.com.'

The thought of being a small business and trying to figure out how to find potential customers there is very daunting.

Secretary Locke has gone on record saying that one of his top priorities is trade promotion.

A world of opportunity exists for small and medium-sized businesses.

I think it's really just pounding the pavement.

So, how do we try to use some of that money?

We need to make sure we're doing all we can to promote American businesses in foreign markets, especially small businesses.

Well, maybe, but this argument that somehow our problems are caused by the fact that we are debating major issues that are affecting the middle class to me does not quite make sense.

I think he and I share a belief that we do need to do everything we can to promote more American product exports.

So this person I mentioned in my opening statement, who had sent out 60 resumes to 60 places and gone to all these interviews, if, at some point, she just says, I can't do this anymore, and takes a month off from looking, she wouldn't even…

I think it's very important.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Commissioner Hall, we've talked before about this dramatic difference between unemployment with varying degrees of education.

Okay, so, in other words, it actually has moderated?

Do you see this with other recessions that we've had in the past?

We are discouraged and we are isolated.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and on behalf of the Senate, I would also like to offer my deepest condolences to Chairwoman Maloney and her family.

Didn't you tell me before that actually an increase in temporary help can be a sign; that that's what companies do first, they hire these temporary workers, so it can be a good sign that it's going to lead later.

I got an interesting letter from one of my constituents that said that, well, maybe Minnesota's rate is eight percent, but at her household, it's a hundred percent.

What was it someone said, Wall Street sneezed and Main Street got a pneumonia.