Amy Klobuchar
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Amy Jean Klobuchar is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota since 2007. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she has focused on issues such as healthcare, infrastructure, and technology during her tenure. Klobuchar has been recognized for her bipartisan efforts and has played a significant role in various legislative initiatives, including those aimed at improving access to healthcare and addressing climate change.
I am one of the sponsors of the Fraud Enforcement Recovery Act which President Obama signed into law.
I have always said one way to build support for it is by making sure that people have skin in the game across the country.
In fact, I know one of the things we discussed--and maybe you want to comment on this, Mr. Voss--is, arguably, the regional pilots, some of them are flying shorter flights.
I think that these rules that we have, the FAA's policies on pilot fatigue, are something like a half-century old.
I was just shocked to learn, at a hearing a few weeks ago, that the deicing rules are 12 years old.
I voted against a number of proposals to do other things with the TARP money.
the idea is to try to use $40 billion in the TARP funds to be made available to small banks so that they can use those to loan to small businesses.





