Amy Klobuchar

The student debt crisis is out of control.

The rights of individuals to organize and increase their incomes, that makes our economy more fair and more fair economy is, I would argue, a more competitive economy.

Everyone in this country should have the right to come together and collectively organize for better wages, better benefits, better working conditions, safer working conditions.

What unions do by getting money in the pockets of working people, by getting money in the pockets of middle class people, it really does stimulate economic activity.

This is what is at stake in this moment as we think about strengthening and modernizing labor laws that... are so out of date.

This is a pure smackdown of voting rights, and it’s why we went there and it’s why the solution is the For the People Act.

This is one that Stacey Abrams, Barack Obama were supportive of, and it didn`t have everything in for the people but it did have some really good provisions.

There`s many paths. First of all, I would abolish the filibuster, and I know some of my colleagues aren`t yet in the same place.

The runoff period, 28 days. Used to be nine weeks when Ossoff and Warnock won, reduced to 28 days.

This isn`t Bill Barr`s Justice Department anymore.

As Reverend Warnock said at Ebenezer Church on Sunday, every vote is a prayer.

The devil is in the details in these bills.

What we have done here today, what we are trying to do in the Senate, it is not about Democrat or Republican. It is about our fundamental right to vote.

These rules hurt you. They hurt people. They hurt working people that are trying to vote.

I come from a state that has some of the best voting laws in terms of making it easier for people to vote.

This bill would now deny the right of non-partisan volunteers to provide water would make things, I would say, even worse.

We are here to listen to people in Georgia about the changes to the state's voting laws, and we are here to discuss why it is so critical for Congress to enact basic federal standards to ensure that all Americans can cast their ballots.

A lot of this is about confusion.

As citizens of this Nation, we have the moral right and sacred duty to vote.

That is not acceptable. So much blood was shed in those battles, and the minimum we can do as citizens is to be allowed to exercise freely our right to vote.

Forty-eight years is a long time for an apology, and it only happened because Congressman Lewis never quit fighting for progress.

We are here today in Atlanta to shine a spotlight on what has been happening in Georgia and in states around the country to undermine the freedom to vote.

We have the infrastructure packages, the Build Back Better packages. The second one will most likely, of course, be a democratic process through another process called reconciliation.

I believe this is an even a bigger deal than just party versus party. This is literally a quest to save our democracy. Because once you start disenfranchising people, then people lose faith.

That is chaos and that is a crisis. So we are going down there because the Republicans, in a concerted effort, are trying to take away people`s freedom to vote and he knows that.