Amy Klobuchar

I actually just visited them this past summer, and they're going to break ground on a $50 million facility that will produce 9 million pounds of shrimp annually.

As the Ranking Member on the Rules Committee, I introduced the Secure Elections Act with Senators Lankford, Harris and Graham, to upgrade our election equipment and protect against cyber-attacks.

That is part of the reason Senator Portman and I and two other Senators led the CARA Act, which helped to set a blueprint for our country.

I think we need to do a better job of policing what the drug companies have been doing in terms of getting people hooked on this.

I think this report is incredibly important and shed some light on just what is going on here.

I got interested in this because, like so many other Senators, I saw what was happening in Minnesota--637 deaths from opioids and other drug overdoses in 2016.

I believe we need to get more funding in the budget upcoming for opioids.

I introduced last Congress with Senator Fischer--the Rural Spectrum Accessibility Act, and it was included in the MOBILE NOW Act that passed the Senate.

Clearly, changes have to be made.

The order that the FCC will soon consider will allow local public safety officials to better target emergency alerts.

I've always been a big fan of the Viper units, and including the K9 units.

Throughout the 2016 cycle, Russians worked to influence the U.S. electorate.

I do believe that this won't work unless we have guidelines like we have for media.

There are literally no rules.

I think it's essential that the ad regulation extend to social media because that's where all advertising is going in the future.

So that's why Senators Warner, McCain, and I have introduced the Honest Ads Act.

We have real issues with droughts and water shortages which have a significant impact on rural economic development

I think that that is a really important issue.

I want to thank all of our witnesses for being here today.

In Minnesota, my state, this has been a focus of our energy policy, a bipartisan focus of our energy policy and today we get about 21 percent of our energy from renewables and are well on our way to hitting our goal of 25 percent which, I…

But our issue is right now that we are in this reality.

The danger involved in reducing the debate time to expedite the confirmation of nominees that we are considering was also highlighted by Louisiana Republican Senator Kennedy last week.

The current Congress is on track for a record-breaking year of advancing judicial nominees, and it is unnecessary at this moment to change the rules of the Senate.

Thank you to Senator Lankford for appearing before us, and I want to thank him for his heartfelt desire to make the Senate work better.

To me, those efforts were bipartisan.