Amy Klobuchar

I want to thank Senator Thune and Nelson for their work, Ms. Cortez Masto and many people here.

Senator Collins and I have introduced the American Apprenticeship Act, which provides competitive grants to states...

STEM education is an important component in college and career readiness for students.

Last Congress, we passed a bipartisan bill that makes critical updates to 'No Child Left Behind.'

I worked on a provision in this bill with my colleague Senator Hoeven to expand STEM opportunities.

We must do everything in our power to prepare our children for the future.

Minnesota has a tremendous amount of State resources.

I have concerns that young farmers are experiencing challenges in accessing Federal cost share programs.

Voluntary conservation programs like the EQIP program are especially popular with conservation-minded younger farmers.

Are there some changes you think we can make in this Farm Bill to the Good Neighbor Authority to make it easier for the States and the Forest Service to use?

What can the Department do to ensure American airline workers are not harmed by unfair competition where, of course, you have subsidized airlines?

I'm concerned, of course, with recent actions like Norwegian Air and some of the other countries, UAE, Qatar, and how their airlines are undermining our U.S. carriers.

Open Skies agreements are an important part of our transportation policies under both Democrat and Republican administrations.

I think it will have the opposite effect despite, I believe, the good work that you want to do.

Congress has said that we should use position limits as appropriate to address the issue of excessive speculation.

We have got to make sure we have the flexibility built into our limits, yet at the same time, we are all concerned about the role of excessive speculations.

What I have asked for in our budget request is 12 additional economists, because what we really need to do is go beyond anecdotal concern and get to--and to take our data and bring it down to really hard analysis so that will drive our…

Cyber is a critical priority and will remain so.

I think that's going to be helpful as we work to get more funding either in a major infrastructure package or in some of the ways that you just discussed.

We have worked very hard to expand broadband. We have our Senate Broadband Caucus.

All of us on this committee should get behind the idea of including Federal funding to jumpstart deployment of broadband services.

Senator Thune and I have worked to reform outdated Universal Service Fund rules.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses today on how we can do better to deliver for Americans who aren't connected and have been left behind.

Mobility Fund 2 should encourage carriers to preserve upgrade and expand mobile broadband and not degrade it.

I appreciate it. On the record I will ask a question about research initiatives to expand the use of ag commodities in non-food markets.