Honorable Amy Klobuchar
United States Senator, Minnesota, Democrat
Senator Klobuchar was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. She served as County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, from 1999 until 2006. She sits on the following committees: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Commerce, Science, and Transportation, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Competitiveness, Innovation, and Export Promotion; Judiciary; and the Joint Economic Committee. The following is from the April 26, 2012, Senate floor debate on S. 1925, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, I can tell you, we have looked hard at all the issues in reauthorizing this bill. We have…
