Amy Klobuchar

America's farm safety net was created during the Great Depression as an essential reform to help support rural communities and protect struggling family farmers from the financial shocks of volatile weather and equally volatile commodity…

Shouldn't we be focused more on results to do everything we can to make our water safe?

I appreciate it, because I am going to manage the bill at 4 o'clock.

I am happy the farm bill passed today with its forward-looking provisions on cellulosic ethanol, the disaster relief, permanent disaster relief that we worked so hard to get, the strong safety net for our farmers. The reasons we had that…

Do you think it's on track right now?

I supported the passenger facility charge. It was a difficult decision to make because of the concerns that I had about some of the modernization that we needed to do.

I am here to speak for a few minutes in support of the Employee Free Choice Act, which the Senate will be voting on, we hope, this week. I support this act because I believe we need to level the playing field for working people in this…

The idea is to have one gathering place for information, and that would be our EPA. The amendment gives them latitude to set this up as they would like, but the idea is to have one place for a carbon registry or, to make it easier, a…

So do you understand the need, and I appreciate you talking about the voluntary work you're doing to revamp some of these regulations for the CPSC and also give them some more resources to do their work.

But, remember that heart got in that little boy's stomach, and it killed him.

Because people just aren't taking this seriously if they're letting products come in like this.

There's got to be a way to stop that from happening.

I'm trying to figure out how we got from nice little packaging, and this was manufactured somewhere in China, and it ended up in--Tamara Fucile, who works with me--her kid's toy box.

How are we going to make sure that those laws are being enforced? Or that that agreement is being enforced?

Has the administration been coming in, every year, asking for more resources to fix these things?

I hope you look at our legislation, where we've basically put that ban in place, with some trace levels.

Has it been of the extent that you would need to revamp a lab like this?

Would it help to have the batch numbers on the packaging or on the toys?

We have to stop just bemoaning the recalls, and we have to act now.

It's time to change our current system of voluntary guidelines, use the force of law, and have an actual, Federal standard.

One guy sitting in an office charged with ensuring the safety of $22 billion worth of toys just isn't going to work.

These toys shouldn't be on our shores, they shouldn't be in our stores.

I've introduced two pieces of legislation that have been incorporated into the bill that Senator Pryor referenced.

We clearly need change.

This was preventable. This little boy should never have had that charm in the first place.