Amy Klobuchar

I was once placed on the Oceans Subcommittee of the Commerce Committee.

Could you talk about how inland states depend more on this river traffic?

I think what Mr. Duncan said is that you get more protection, and certainly the situation that we saw with Home Depot...

Last year, many of my colleagues and the media had talked about the need to move to chip-and-PIN technology, similar to what we are seeing in Europe, Canada, and elsewhere.

I hope, given that we have already had hearings this Congress, and I appreciate Senator Thune's leadership...that we can move ahead in this area of cybersecurity.

If we are going to spend the money to reduce fraud, let's reduce fraud. Let's do PIN-and-chip.

These cyber attacks are increasing in scope.

I think it is a cause whose time has come, when you look at what has been going on around the states.

Have you looked at what they have done in Canada?

Yes. It is just the one shot.

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

This is something Senator Cornyn and I again have a bill on sex trafficking, which is called the Safe Harbor bill.

At some point, I think we have talked about this before, but Senator Cornyn and I did the drug take-back bill and we have finally gotten the rules out from DEA on that.

I think you know that the stats lately are that four out of five of heroin users started with prescription drugs and then they turned to heroin.

I also look forward to working with you. We also have a number of domestic victims, I think 80 percent of the victims actually are from the U.S. as well.

The open nature of the Internet has certainly allowed it to quickly become an essential tool for economic development.

I do not think the antitrust laws quite fit to take care of everything.

If Congress decides to create a new broadband-focused statute or title, what will happen to the Universal Service Fund if Section 254, which currently governs universal service, is omitted from any such legislation governing broadband?

Amtrak has played an important role in my state. It is critical to moving passengers.

It is the Renewable Fuel Standard. You and I have talked about this in the past.

We think it is good to have a mix of fuel, and along with the Chairwoman, a number of us have been advocating against some of the changes that have been suggested last year by the administration.

I have been concerned in the group of Senators that see this as an issue most notably in the gas and oil markets in the past.

I want to make sure that the CFTC also takes into account how these commercial end users use hedges and derivatives in their day-to-day business.

I hope you will continue to work with those that trade physical commodities as well.

I think we have seen the sentiment for that in a lot of the States.