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I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

Amy Klobuchar

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Amy Klobuchar
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 25
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United States Senator
Plymouth
Minnesota
Amy Jean Klobuchar
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Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.
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If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.
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I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.
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We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.
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We have an enormous part of the FBI in our counter intelligence division and in our cyber division that focuses on just threat and making sure that we do everything that we can to understand how the bad guys might come at us.
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You cannot compare any leaders in America to what Vladimir Putin has done. This is a man and a regime that has taken down a passenger plane in Ukraine, killing hundreds of people.
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Well, I think the way to go is civil unions. But I do think when you talk about the Republican Party and the debates that are going on within the Republican Party on a number of issues, what I'm hoping is that they will get to a point where they will work with us on moving forward with this economy.
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We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.
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If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor.
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Times change, and right now what people need is, they need to be able to send their kids to college, they need to able to buy a house.
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To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education.
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For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought anything is possible.
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I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.
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There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.
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Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.
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As you are well aware Russia is actively working to undermine our democracy and hurt American businesses at the same time. Now more than ever Americans are looking to Congress for leadership and we must be a united front.
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