Amy Klobuchar

And so, you literally go back to the beginnings of America. And you see this entrepreneurial spirit where, literally, capitalism has rejuvenated itself, every-few decades by new companies coming on.

True justice is not done as long as having expired tags means losing your life during a traffic stop. True justice is not done as long as a chokehold, a knee on the neck or a no-knock warrant is considered legitimate policing. True justice…

It is time for Washington, D.C. to move forward on police reform and pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. We must make policing more accountable. We have to change police training and standards including banning chokeholds.

I`d abolish the filibuster tomorrow. I`m sick and tired of what`s been happening in the gridlock in the Senate on voting rights and on so many other things.

One of the things I`m so devoted to is trying to pass the police reform on the federal level and the state level so that there is a higher standard for when police use force and we have more accountability.

I just kept thinking of the family, the Floyd family. Knowing that this wouldn`t bring George back to them, he`ll still never be able to hold his children or visit his mom`s grave, and so he`s still gone. But that family, Chris, held in…

We are hoping to move this quickly and, as you know, we have had wide bipartisan support for it.

I believe that we cannot take this biggest companies in the world on with duct tape and Band-aids.

He saw his job as passing on the torch, to the next generation of leaders.

He encouraged me to run for the U.S. senate. He supported me for president. He was there every step of the way.

He was a man of incredible strength and dignity. He treated everyone with kindness.

Walter Mondale is a high bar for himself, for his entire life he kept passing and raising it.

COVID has really shown us how important it is--what an important role transit plays, especially for our essential workers getting to work.

I look at this in terms of the vaccine in a few ways.

I made the point that 95 percent of their doctors got the vaccine.

These are not radical proposals. These are ideas that nearly everyone in this country agrees with. And this bill we can make them a reality and ensure that Americans have a democracy that for works for them.

We cannot be in a situation where we're reducing child poverty by 50 percent and then have it jump back up again

The American Rescue Plan, which we have just passed, provides historic new levels of resources for tribal communities

This has to be ongoing. It's just a start, and we look forward to working with all of you

I am excited to be, having just reintroduced my legislation with Senator Collins, the School Food Modernization Act, to help schools modernize their equipment.

This is a moment you only get maybe every 50 years for civil rights for elections, and that is why Senator Schumer made this s and why we are so devoted to passing this bill.

I personally favor getting rid of the filibuster.

This voting rights legislation is probably the one thing that could stop the hundreds of state-level voting rights rollbacks that are currently in the works in Republican-controlled states.

It addresses that opportunity gap, as I like to talk about it, rather than an achievement gap, because it is really a lack of access to opportunity that our children have if they are living in poverty.

I think what we do in the American Rescue Plan not only with providing--shoring up our child care system but also the child tax credit, which is going to have the impact of lifting--reducing child poverty by half.