Amy Klobuchar

I will say, I was thinking, as you spoke, mayor, about how when I was growing up, our family would come up a lot to the North Shore.

Well, that's a new fact.

It will make America more competitive in the global travel market and grow the Nation's inbound travel.

We are feeling very positive that we could finally pass this bill that's been kicking around Washington for years and years and years.

We would also like to acknowledge that it wouldn't have passed its first steps without the important leadership from Senator Klobuchar.

We can't just simply say this problem is too big to solve, these homes are too big to fail.

And as Senator Warner said, we have, what, 13 States now that are seeing this?

I became interested in the consumer product issue, the children's toys issue, and we had a little boy, named Jarnell Brown, who lost his life.

I mean, that's what you've done with other kinds of products. So, I don't buy that it's just impossible to figure out where these products came from.

I can't imagine having a home and being told, 'Oh, you can't open the windows, because it might make your kids sick.'

When you hear Mr. Kampf's story and the story of these other people, this is something that we have to do on an expedited basis.

I think we should do it.

There's a lot of interest to incorporate road construction projects with the deployment of broadband technology, with the idea that we can save taxpayer money and reduce disruptions to American's lives, if we dig once.

You would prefer it done nationally, federally. It would be a lot easier than creating a national study for us to look at.

I think if we saw some pattern here of increased prices, as we saw back in--who was bringing up 1975 and what had happened?

I think our role here and our duty and the FTC's duty is beyond that, and it is really looking at if there has been a bad effect on consumers because of this.

I think it is important when we look at these numbers we consider that as well.

The only safe predictions to make about today's decisions are that it will likely raise the price of goods at retail.

I come from a State that believes in science. We gave the world everything from the pacemaker to the Post-It note.

It is going to be very important to this debate that business and the businesses that have sprung up around new energy, clean energy, green energy, whatever you want to call it, technology, has a seat at the table here.

In order to get those technologies to the market, we do need to have that climate legislation in place.

We would like to see E12 and E15 and that we do not lose this biofuel component.

The President has called for increased development of biofuels.

I think we had a space race many years ago, but it is truly going to be a race for energy efficiency.

We have truly seen the advantages of the jobs that can come out of homegrown energy.