Amy Klobuchar

These attacks on election workers and their families are inexcusable.

It has been disappointing, but that doesn't mean that we are going to back down from trying to get some kind of agreement.

Of course, we are always open to that. It has just been very difficult because time is ticking by here and we have worked very hard on the bill.

I am so pleased that Senator Blunt and I jointly announced this hearing.

Thank you for your good work.

I want to thank you for your courage, those of you who have received threats.

The whole idea is just to simply guarantee people the right to vote in a way that is safe.

We are also seeing states taking actions that undermine public trust in our elections...

The Freedom to Vote Act, which I introduced with the members of the Voting Rights Working Group convened by Leader Schumer...

The fact that they weren’t doing anything, he claimed that they limited 96 percent of hate speech. His own researchers saying it was only 5 percent.

You can’t have 20 percent of the economy be tech and then not having passed any privacy laws on the federal level, no changes to competition policy, which I’ve long been requesting.

We must have a federal privacy law and we are working on that in the Commerce Committee under Senator Cantwell`s leadership.

Thank you for your comments about relying--both sides relying too much on talking points and information from groups as opposed to independent research.

This type of development is critical to ensuring housing and transportation options are affordable to the average American.

Investments in public transit systems are critical to getting people back to work.

This is the lawyer that wasn`t following a line. He was -- your oath, and he took oath in his job. Your oath is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

What I care about is that we stood united, we had a strategy, and our strategy was to govern and govern with the President of the United States, and we did it.

It`s unbelievable that they brought us to this brink. But in the end, they caved.

I literally, Chris, am a few yards away from the Senate floor because we have a series of votes tonight with Senator Blunt`s vote as well as Senator Rounds` vote, 11 Republicans. But I will note, only 11 Republicans voted with every single…

Putting fire sprinklers, in my mind, at the top of that list for life safety is urgently important

I would note we have one of the lower death rates for seniors from COVID, and I think a lot of this was a coordination.

I think that accountability piece of it, it is going to be really important.

Thank you, Senator Lujan, for your leadership on this, as well as other issues related to getting information out to your constituents.

The pandemic has shown about how we need to connect with family and friends.

We just did, in the bipartisan infrastructure bill that we are very proud of that passed the Senate $65 billion when it came to broadband.