Amy Klobuchar

Can they still appeal?

I think it is Congress' responsibility to look at the whole picture of this economic impact.

What is so puzzling for so many of our dealers in Minnesota, is that some of these dealers were actually doing pretty well.

I said that day that a bridge just should not fall down in the middle of America.

We care so much about making this plan work.

Thank you very much. And thank you, Governor Hoeven.

There is a way to treat both sides of the river the same when they are in different States.

Thank you very much, Senator Dorgan, for your leadership time and time again on these flood issues.

And was this helpful information to you about the cost benefit? Did that surprise you when you brought that up in your testimony?

We want to make sure people understand that there may have been a few bad actors out there, but they shouldn't ruin it for everyone, including our workers in the travel industry.

We are behind compared to other developed nations, even developing nations, when it comes to rail.

As you know, because you've been very supportive of it, we're working on a project to return rail passenger service between here and the Twin Cities.

It would be very helpful for our country, for the long term, to pass this bill, to make sure people know, in Minnesota, that there are good deals close to home.

If we take care of the line workers, as were mentioned, you're going to see, hopefully, a spike back up in tourism.

We want to make the market there for bringing people to our State, and we're going to have to get this bill passed

Minnesota is not doing as much. And so, I think a U.S. travel promotion organization not only would allow us to compete

What we're trying to do on the Federal level, obviously, is to market, America

We'd like them to come elsewhere, as well, in our State

But, just what you've seen, in terms of the jobs, in a very difficult economic time, especially with iron-ore mines.

And hopefully, with the travel trend for the vacations closer to home, our region will be busy this spring and summer travel season.

It was not exactly what I wanted to be doing in our first 2 months, with these ideological young people that had joined the office.

We've actually just opened up a passport office in Minnesota, something I've been pushing for.

I want to talk a little bit about this--just with passport--passport card requirement now coming in, in June.

So many people communicate over the Internet and on the telephone, sometimes for businesses that have different offices across the country or across the State, this is their one opportunity to bring people together.

We see that effect, as well, on the industry in our State.