Amy Klobuchar

I am also leading the bill to lift the embargo on Cuba with Senators Flake, Enzi, and Paul and a number of Democrats.

I cosponsored the BRIDGE Act with Senators Warner and Blunt and others.

We need to kind of pierce through that and make sure they are attended to.

I am really making a pitch here that we put that in the transportation bill.

I have a bill with Senator Sessions to have the department study high-risk rural road best practices.

The Safe Harbor bill that I'm leading that passed through this Committee unanimously a few weeks ago

We're hopeful we'll reach some kind of agreement on the legislation on the floor and be able to move forward

For the first time, some of our smaller rural electric companies raised cybersecurity with me.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing. I think we all know this is an issue whose time has come, and we also need to spur the private sector to increase the securities and protections.

I believe it is in their own best interest to establish robust policies.

Even larger companies with policies from several different insurance providers cannot find policies to cover their cybersecurity needs.

This week I'm introducing the Improving World Call Quality and Reliability Act with Senator Tester.

Thirty percent of our Nobel Laureates in the U.S. were born in other countries.

It brings down the debt by nearly 160 billion dollars in the first ten years and by nearly $700 billion in the next 10 years.

More than 200 were founded by immigrants or their kids including many in my state.

Can you talk about why we have seen this rise in income inequality and what can be done to reverse the trend?

But I think we all know that there is more work to be done

The other challenge we know we have is income inequality.

I want to congratulate, first of all, my friend Senator Coats, as well as for his Chairmanship.

In 2012, the No Hassle Flying Act, which I introduced with Senator Blunt, was signed into law.

In our state, we have had now, since November, several people attempting to travel to the Mideast to join ISIS.

As a former prosecutor and co-chair along with Senator Burr of the 9-1-1 Caucus in the Senate, I know how important it is to support our first responders.

I'm also the state that had that bridge collapse, and while everyone saw on TV the firefighter, the first responder show up and repeatedly dive into that water to look for survivors...

The Spectrum Act also included an amendment I worked to include that created a funding mechanism for more than 115 million for Next Generation 9-1-1 research and grants.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to you and Ranking Member Nelson for holding this important hearing.