Amy Klobuchar

You can’t make a defense to the indefensible.

To me, that`s all you need to know about Donald Trump and his role in inciting this riot.

It was chilling to watch that video and to be in the very room where this had happened. I say, everyone was watching the video. And what we saw for the first time was just the timeline.

It is an honor to tell you Neera's story. Not only is her story characterized by hard work and determination, but it actually shows the power of the American dream.

I think Liz Cheney did a beautiful job this weekend of describing this, that you just can't pretend it didn't happen.

We can't have the precedent be that you can just go do anything you want in President Trump's own words 'go wild' and wreak havoc on our democracy to the point where people die and police officers are killed and not have any kind of…

You can't have a President who just because he loses, clearly loses an election decides he is going to mess around with our democracy and literally attack a co-equal branch of government that was simply doing its job.

This is not about his First Amendment rights. It's about him inciting a riot.

The First Amendment is designed to protect people from their government. In this case, he literally incited people to attack the government, to attack a co-equal branch of the government.

He literally told an angry mob to go fight, told them to march down the Mall, which they did. He told them the day before to go wild.

As my mentor in Minnesota, Paul Wellstone, says, it makes it possible so that when we all do better, we all do better.

I introduced the Renewable Fuel Infrastructure Act in December with Senator Ernst to build upon the infrastructure program.

I would hope that we would be able to figure out ways in which we could mitigate the impact financially...

He will not just say the words as your Secretary. He will get things done.

Thank you for the good work you do, the bipartisan work you do. That is the hallmark of this Committee.

We actually had a bipartisan agreement on a major piece of immigration reform with DACA, the dreamers and with the temporary workers that were here.

American people right now are juggling everything. And we should be able to do the same thing in the Senate.

COVID relief and the pandemic package we have to get through to get the vaccines are distributed, expanding production -- has to go hand in hand with economic relief for the American people.

But they`re also going to know that our country is once again governing from the heart and governing with goodwill.

Not the election of the first president, but the second. Because our country is about a transfer of power, a peaceful transfer of power.

To have President Bush there, Vice President Pence, to have the leaders from both parties there to tell the world, this is our new president and vice president, we are proud of them, and we wish them well and want them to unite our nation.

We must go forward and that this is the moment, especially after two weeks ago, we will be on the very platform where those rioters and insurrectionists came up, broke the windows.

It is on all of us to cherish it and to pass it on to the next generation. It is on all of us to take up its torch.

The president isn't King. And that's what he thought he was when he sent that angry mob down to invade a coequal branch of government, the Congress.

It is still an honor to be part of this very important moment, this peaceful transfer of power to our next President Joe Biden, our next Vice President Kamala Harris.