Amy Klobuchar

I think that lack of competition, as Senator Warner was pointing out, can lead to issues.

It's just my own experience and I want to kind of get off the rural issue for a little bit.

I still hear it. I do note that according to your preliminary results, 42 percent of those surveyed, who wanted to, but ultimately did not switch services, found ETFs to be a problem.

It's still not really evenly prorated as we would have liked to have done.

I am very concerned about... rape kits and other things.

I can still tell you that in rural parts of our country... the cell phone coverage still goes bad.

I introduced a bill last year called the 'Cell Phone Consumer Empowerment Act' with a number of my Commerce colleagues.

I felt so strongly about getting this bill done. I was pleased we got it done and passed on a bipartisan basis.

I had quite an experience down there at Representative Clyburn's fish fry that I will never forget.

The complaint right now--and this is why we had this hearing--is just concerns about some of the prices right now.

We have been called the land of not just 10,000 lakes, but 10,000 treatment centers.

I think the willingness to focus on that part of the time, what education they get when they're in prison--no one wants to say they're getting out, but they are.

I always remember, it's not going to be on the gated communities, it's not going to be where a lot of my colleagues live.

I think the key is to have it be a chisel and not a hammer in trying to get to the right place.

I think sometimes laws and funding were set back at a time before we had this extent of the technology we have.

Just to define this, the CSI effect, for everyone, is that juries expect this and, if they do not have it, they may think that the person is not guilty.

I think part of the successes that we have had with so many challenges ahead... is a tribute to all of you.

I wanted to follow up on a few things that some of the other Senators asked.

Last year, it was discovered that Los Angeles County has the largest backlog of untested rape kits of any jurisdiction in the country.

Should we be taking more steps up front to ensure that no one has to pay for the rape kit?

When we start to prioritize certain people, we create a parallel universe of justice, and that has to stop.

One of the things that I have found recently in the last 10 years--we call it the 'CSI effect'--is that juries are actually expecting to have DNA.

I always thought that one of the real beauties of VAWA is how it tried to encourage community-based responses and getting groups involved.

It happens all the time, and in our State there were proposals to do this.

I know somewhere Paul and Sheila Wellstone are looking down on us today.