Amy Klobuchar

The Lifeline program provides critical connectivity for those who need it most. Informing consumers about their Lifeline eligibility is a necessary step to help close the digital divide and is clearly something we should continue doing…

I had her in my--we had a long discussion about the claw backs and like if they are not actually doing it, that the money can be clawed back.

We have major health care systems based in our states and one in South Dakota, obviously, Mayo in Sanford, Mayo in Minnesota.

There’s bipartisan support for increasing resources to the agency. That’s about the agency.

No one has said yet that they will include issue ads. And that is what we just heard from Mr. Stretch, 90 percent of our paid political ads were issue ads.

Well, they’re not easy, and the companies have thrived on the fact that they’re not easy.

We need to do something about our competition policy, Ali. That is what I’ve been advocating for, so these dominate platforms can’t decide to put their own products at the top or do things that will exclude competitors from succeeding at…

I think this witness today, Frances Haugen, is her name, I think she’s going to be a catalyst for change.

I am deeply concerned about Facebook's ability to operate in a safe way in languages beyond maybe the top 20 in the world.

I think this idea of establishing some rules of the road for these tech platforms goes beyond the kid protection that we so dearly need to do.

Facebook knows that the engagement-based ranking, the way that they pick the content in Instagram for young users, for all users, amplifies preferences.

The fact that Facebook is so scared of even basic transparency that it goes out of its way to block researchers who are asking awkward questions shows you the need for congressional oversight and why we need to do Federal research and…

I've long been focused on this eating disorder issue, given the mortality rates.

The time for action is now.

We have done nothing to update our privacy laws in this country, our Federal privacy laws, nothing, zilch in any major way.

The time has come for action and I think you are the catalyst for that action.

I led a bill on this with Senators Capito and Baldwin that we passed into law, and I'm concerned that these algorithms that they have pushes outrageous content promoting anorexia and the like.

Facebook time and time again has put profit over people.

I applaud the Biden administration's commitment to keeping our children safe in school through vaccinations, through masking, through ventilation, and through testing.

Childcare is a family and an economic imperative.

We need to make sure that the folks that are really needing the help are not the ones that are getting penalized.

We have a solution to this problem that is included in the Build Back Better plan that President Biden has proposed.

Now is the time. We have to stop admiring this problem and tweeting about it and actually do something about it.

This shouldn’t be happening in the United States of America where we funded the vast majority of this research.

Failure is not an option here. We have to bring down the cost of prescription drugs for the people of this country.