Amy Klobuchar

So you want to make sure that any privacy language we have in the stimulus package does not limit the ability of Mayo or other providers in sharing this de-identified data.

I brought up deliberately this concern of State-by-State regulation.

I think patients would be surprised to hear that their pharmacy records were at risk of being sold.

I think it is important to have clear Federal standards and guidelines that set the framework, you know, for those policies.

It is incredibly important in the health care area.

Thank you, Senator Hatch for that.

I think it encourages people to suddenly find other meetings they have to go to.

Fixing these bridges and roads and other infrastructure rail won't be easy. But I would say that will be my leading concern.

It's our responsibility to work in a bipartisan manner on this issue.

Railroad competition has all but disappeared.

Modernizing our air traffic control system should be a key priority.

I missed Senator Lautenberg's opening, but I'm sure he stressed the importance of Amtrak.

A bridge just shouldn't fall down in the middle of America, not a six-lane highway, not a bridge that is just six blocks from my home where 13 people died in this tragedy.

I welcome you and have been able to see firsthand from not too far away your successful tenure as Governor.

I want to tell you how happy I am that you were nominated.

I have heard from people in northern Minnesota, both loggers as well as environmentalists, of the concern about the budget for the U.S. Forest Service.

I think it is very important that we keep this infant industry going.

I just want to reiterate, we have had a big bipartisan effort in our State on renewable fuels and alternative energy.

I think we have come to be convinced that the answer may not just be E85, it may be just lower level blends in all of our fuel.

I for one believe we shouldn't be pulling the rug out from under it.

We can work hand in hand with job creation in the energy area through climate change policy.

I just think is sort of a pathetic example of how the Federal Government is lagging behind.

I think we talked about that yesterday when you and I talked.

I just couldn't believe. One of my worst memories of this time period was sitting out there secretly reading that endangerment finding.

I have been very concerned in the last 8 years that the EPA has been operating in an evidence-free zone.