Amy Klobuchar

This is a huge priority for me. It is essential to address if we want to get at the fundamental inequalities around wealth.

We've got strong bipartisan support. I've worked a lot on the broadband piece. It's going to be a game changer for our country, and we're going to get this done.

It was absolutely absurd that 27 of them in the House didn't support it.

That's why you wonder why we are so focused on the For the People Bill that sets national Federal standards, saying you know what, you should be able to vote early, you should be able to vote in whatever way you can that is safe, like…

These are the kinds of bills that are passing, as you mentioned, in Texas, and around the country, and so this is all tied into what was going on before the election.

We are, by the way, trying to make sure this never happens again, with a bill that I have just introduced with Senator Warnock of Georgia to extend some of the protections.

This isn't a campaign. This is the Justice Department. And in America, the President isn't King, the law is King.

I want to thank my colleagues, every single one of them, including Senator Blunt and Senator Collins, who is here with us today, for supporting this legislation and honoring the heroism and patriotism of the courageous law enforcement…

Voting rights are people`s rights. Voting rights are about our democracy, and the people will overcome. We will pass this bill.

I, of course, join my colleagues in their fond words for Carl Levin. He was a mentor to me, like so many. And I am looking forward to speaking about him as well as my good friend Senator Enzi, whom we also tragically lost this past week…

I have been hearing concerns from ranchers in northwest Minnesota about a lack of urgency from USDA on providing drought relief.

If confirmed, will you work to provide relief for ranchers and farmers during extreme summer drought conditions?

I guess I will start with you, Ms. Torres Small, and I will reiterate the importance of broadband and USDA's work.

If confirmed, absolutely.

If confirmed, I will, absolutely.

Bitcoin takes 500,000 times more energy to verify a payment compared with a Visa transaction.

According to a recent estimate, Bitcoin mining produces about 37 megatons of carbon dioxide each year.

They are there to protect consumers and the integrity of our financial systems.

Cryptocurrency is increasingly a real concern also as a driver of global emissions, and this clearly is not sustainable.

Senator Thune and I awhile back put a bill that allowed for this more and, of course, you run into classified issues and things like that, but again we've got to figure that out.

I think we all know how bad this is and how scary this is.

I really appreciate this bipartisan hearing. I am struck--here we are today. We are at a pivotal point in the COVID-19 pandemic.

There has been a 400 percent increase in new COVID cases over the past month.

I think that this disparity is caused in large part by the social determinants of health, right.

We need to learn these lessons like today and then apply them today so that we can avoid and mitigate what looks to me like being another very concerning surge.