He said at the very beginning, he’s representing everyone in this country. KLOBUCHAR: But my focus is getting things done, as is Joe Biden’s. What’s so shocking to me is how the Republicans could be so blind to think that their constituents will not recognize that they stood in the way of this relief. It’s something I brought up with my husband the other day, because we know that the country wants this.
It’s thrilling that it was passed in such glorious fashion. It’s really exciting that we have this major increase in the number of vaccines being distributed so we’re feeling like we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.ĬURTIS: It’s such a huge piece of legislation for the underserved in our country. It was really important that we got the pandemic legislation done, and that’s why we went around the clock. I went 36 hours with three 15-minute naps, so less than an hour’s sleep. I was just speaking with your staff, asking if they had gotten any sleep. JAMIE LEE CURTIS: I’m going to call you Amy, because we’re having a conversation on a Sunday morning. This spring, she’ll make her case even further in the book Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age, but before that, she made it here, to Jamie Lee Curtis.
“We have a major monopoly problem in this country,” she said at the time, “which harms consumers and threatens free and fair competition across our economy.” But that was only a prelude to last February, when she unveiled the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act, a sweeping bill that puts Big Tech companies such as Facebook and Google directly in its crosshairs. Shortly after she bowed out of that race in March of last year, Klobuchar, whose endorsement of Joe Biden helped propel him to the nomination, introduced legislation to deter anticompetitive abuses from large companies. Klobuchar’s performance during that hearing-“Where is the bravery in this room?” she asked her Republican colleagues-gave her the exposure she needed to launch a campaign for president. In a moment that went viral, a defensive Kavanaugh lashed out at Klobuchar, and apologized shortly thereafter. In 2018, during the heated confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the senator drew national attention for her relentless questioning surrounding his drinking habits. But despite her Midwestern demeanor, the University of Chicago Law School–trained attorney has plenty of fight in her, too. Senate in 2006, Klobuchar has established herself as a moderate presence in an increasingly polarized Congress, willing to reach across the aisle to push forward legislation, such as the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act in 2015, and the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act she led the following year. Since she was first appointed to the U.S. As a cohead of the inauguration committee for President Biden, she stood on the steps of the Capitol building on January 20 and announced, “This is the day our democracy picks itself up, brushes off the dust, and does what America always does: goes forward as a nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” For the senator from Minnesota, the moment was not a declaration of victory, but a promise that the real work was just beginning. Amy Klobuchar began the year in a moment of triumph.