Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released the following statement on the released record of the phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “The record of this call is deeply disturbing—the President solicited a foreign leader to investigate a political rival and his...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee with jurisdiction over federal elections, released the following statement after the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an amendment led by Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and cosponsored by Senator Chris Coons...

Beginning today, the FEC no longer has a quorum and cannot fully enforce federal election laws  Klobuchar is the Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee with jurisdiction over the FEC and federal elections WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee with jurisdiction over federal...

This week, the Brennan Center for Justice released a report evaluating the state of our country’s election security and recommended that more must be done to secure our elections WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar issued the following statement on a report from the Brennan Center for Justice highlighting the urgent need...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee with jurisdiction over federal elections, spoke on the Senate floor today urging her Republican colleagues to take up legislation to protect our election infrastructure. The intelligence community, including Special Counsel Robert Mueller,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee with oversight over federal elections, introduced new legislation to help end partisan gerrymandering and reform the nation's patchwork redistricting process. The Redistricting Reform Act would require states to establish independent,...

The Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy Act would establish a grant program at the Department of Education to help develop digital citizenship and media literacy education across grades K-12 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced new legislation to combat foreign interference campaigns by improving media literacy...

Republicans refused to take up Klobuchar’s Securing America's Federal Elections (SAFE) Act, which already passed the House WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee with oversight over federal elections, released the following statement today after Republicans blocked Leader Chuck...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decisions in the partisan gerrymandering cases of Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek.  “Today’s Supreme Court decision gives a green light to politicians who manipulate congressional...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) took to the Senate floor to call for action on election security legislation. She asked for unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S.1540, the Election Security Act and Senator James Lankford (R-OK) objected. “Russia invaded our...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee with oversight jurisdiction over federal elections, and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, introduced legislation today to expand the scope of the prohibition on political activity by foreign nationals....

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, and Senators Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee, and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) announced that their bill to restore full retirement benefits for certain Senate dining employees has been signed into law. Blunt, Klobuchar, and Brown...

Klobuchar joined her colleagues on the Senate floor to recognize the importance of the women’s suffrage movement that led to the 19th amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (MN) took to the Senate floor to celebrate the centennial anniversary...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, commended the Smithsonian Institution’s announcement that Lonnie G. Bunch III has been elected as the next Secretary of the Smithsonian:“Lonnie Bunch has dedicated his career to preserving and sharing our nation’s history, and it’s fitting that he will now be...

The Election Security Act would improve election cybersecurity and combat foreign interference in our democracy  Over three dozen senators have cosponsored the legislation WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee with jurisdiction over federal elections, introduced major election security...

The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is an independent, bipartisan commission charged with assisting election officials to provide accessible, secure, and accurate elections WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee, which has jurisdiction over elections, led a letter with 31 Democratic...

Letter encourages Department of Homeland Security and FBI to establish a task force to combat the spread of online misinformation designed to undermine our elections WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) today urging them to work...

WASHINGTON — On the 54th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) called on Congress to pass her legislation to make voting easier for all Americans. Klobuchar, the Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee with oversight jurisdiction over federal elections, introduced three bills. One to automatically register...

The Register America to Vote Act would require every state to register eligible citizens to vote when they turn 18  The Same Day Registration Act would require states to allow people to register to vote on the same day as the election  The Students Voicing Opinions in Today’s Elections (VOTE) Act would create a pilot program to...

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and Senator James Lankford's (Okla.) resolution (S. Res. 50) to update the Senate rules for most Senate-confirmed nominees passed out of the committee in a vote of 10 to 9. The resolution will reduce the 30 hours of post-cloture...