Amy Klobuchar

You can see why the President is devoted to trying to make sure that people get some college.

Thank you very much.

We've seen an increase in consumer confidence, which is pretty marked.

How about for parts of the country?

A lot of this economic recovery was actually replacing jobs that were lost or have been lost.

That group that is so hard for people to get their arms around, the group I was talking about like the Johnsons of Blaine, Minnesota, who would like to work more hours but are discouraged.

The thought that they're coming back and the job isn't there anymore makes them so disadvantaged.

That's historically true if we're going to look at long-term situations. That should make a difference.

So these are people that are discouraged workers, that can't quite get the money they need or the hours they need?

The Joint Economic Committee will come to order.

Senator Durbin and I and others, on a bipartisan basis, have worked on this food safety bill.

I wonder, Ms. Harden, with your role with congressional relations, if you could talk a little bit about how we can stop this from happening again.

I hope you will look into that model.

Senator Thune and I, and a few others here, I think, serve on both Agriculture and Commerce.

That is very practical, so thank you very much for that.

I think we had--I just checked--1,500 cases in a few months in 2007. I will report we saved 17 honeymoons and lost one.

I am going to serve bacon at our Minnesota Morning where we invite all our constituents tomorrow morning just to make the point.

You know, we have people that go back and forth to take ballroom dancing, and it is a big concern on the border that that go as smoothly as possible.

I just wondered if you could address that.

I think some limited exemption for the industry to come together for a period of time could allow us to really find out what Mr. Simon's been talking about.

I know that Senator McCaskill covered the issue that I was focused on, on local coverage and how important that is.

Thank you very much.

I want to get a sense of how this would help you, vis-a-vis as you talk about your negotiations.

And do you think there's anything that can be done with bankruptcy proceedings--anyone have any thoughts on that--to ease it?

We are not talking about decriminalizing that.