Amy Klobuchar (D)

Pro
Should the US End the Cash Bail System?

"We have to do more to reduce inflexible mandatory minimums and add safety valves, building on the federal reforms we made last year. True criminal justice reform includes the cash bail system, expanding funding for public defenders and eliminating obstacles to re-entering and participating fully in society. That's why we also need better educational and job training programs that can help people both before and after they are released."

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Should Universal Background Checks for Gun Purchases Be Made Law?

"Gun violence prevention policies are long overdue. Amy supports a package of gun violence policies including instituting universal background checks by closing the gun show loophole and banning bump stocks, high capacity ammunition feeding devices and assault weapons. She is also the author of a proposal that would close what is commonly referred to as the ‘boyfriend loophole’ by preventing people who have abused dating partners from buying or owning firearms."

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Should the Federal Government Adopt Net Neutrality Rules?

“As a strong supporter of a free and open internet, I am opposed to the Federal Communications Commission’s vote to eliminate net neutrality rules. These important protections prevent internet service providers from blocking, slowing and prioritizing web traffic. This vote will harm consumers, particularly in rural areas. It will limit competition. And it will hurt small business entrepreneurship and innovation. I will continue to push for a free and open internet.”

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Should the Federal Government Provide Universal Childcare?

"Affordable, quality child care must be available to every family. Child care shortages across the country pose a moral and financial issue for communities when parents are forced to decide between working and staying at home with their children Our bipartisan Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act will help ensure that every family has good options available to them when planning for their careers and their children."

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Should Federal Taxes Be Increased?

"Pay for infrastructure proposals with a series of corporate tax reforms. To pay for this infrastructure investment, Amy will make a number of corporate tax reforms including adjusting the corporate tax rate to 25%, closing loopholes that encourage U.S. companies to move jobs and operations overseas, establishing a financial risk fee on our largest banks, and increasing efforts for tax enforcement."

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Should the Federal Minimum Wage Be Increased?

"If we are going to build a stronger middle class, we need to make sure that Americans can work their way into it. I support increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour... "Lifting the minimum wage is part of the solution to get the economy back on track for the middle class and at the same time giving our businesses the customers they need with more money in their pockets to buy their goods."

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Should the Federal Funding to Historically Black Universities and Colleges (HBCUs) Be Increased?

"Strengthen and increase affordability for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). As President Senator Klobuchar will invest in HBCUs and MSIs through a new Pathways to Student Success initiative. Participating HBCUs and MSIs will receive federal funding to waive or significantly reduce the first two years of tuition for low-income students at four-year schools."

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Should Public College Be Tuition-Free?

"I think we have to do everything to help our students afford college. My idea is to make it easier to refinance, to start with two-year degrees, the community colleges being free. That's something that President Obama was pushing. There's a reason I'll get to why I'm starting there instead of four-year...

I am not for free four-year college for all, no...

And I wish -- if I was a magic genie and could give that to everyone and we could afford it, I would. I'm just trying to find a mix of incentives and make sure kids that are in need -- that's why I talked about expanding Pell Grants -- can go to college and be able to afford it and make sure that people that can't afford it are able to pay."

Pro
Should Election Day Be a National Holiday?

"Senator Klobuchar has pledged that the For the People Act — legislation that has thirteen of Senator Klobuchar’s legislative provisions — will be the first bill she sends to Congress as President. She will also champion a voting rights and democracy reform package that: Eliminates obstacles to voting and makes it easier to vote by... Designating election day as a federal holiday."

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Should Former Felons Be Allowed to Vote?

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Should Fracking Be Allowed?

"[Erin] BURNETT: Senator, you have not joined some of your colleagues who are calling for an all out ban on fracking. Why?

KLOBUCHAR: OK. So because again, I see natural gas as a transitional fuel. It is better than oil, but it's not nearly as good as wind and solar, right.

However, you have situations where you have dangerous fracking that shouldn't be happening. So as president in my first 100 days, I will review every fracking permit there is and decide which ones should be allowed to be continued and which ones are too dangerous.

Then you go from there. And as you put a -- a price on carbon, you will see less of this going on. Of course you will because once you put rules of the road in place, it's going to become less economically feasible for that kind of fuel...

I think it will still exist for a while, and I think the key thing is as it exist and as we make it more economic for our renewable and for wind and solar and the kind of technology that we're going to see and the electric cars, that we won't immediately get rid of it."

Pro
Should the US Adopt a Climate Change Plan such as the Green New Deal?

"The evidence is clear: the climate crisis isn’t happening in 100 years — it’s happening now. 2018 was the fourth-hottest year on record globally and it was another near-record year for U.S. weather and climate disasters. The dire warnings in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Climate Assessment make clear that immediate action is needed. The National Climate Assessment lays out how increasing global temperatures are harming our country’s food systems and public health by increasing the risk of respiratory and cardiovascular disease, while displacement and destruction caused by climate-related natural disasters threaten our economy and national security. Senator Klobuchar is deeply committed to tackling the climate crisis and she believes that it is an urgent priority for our country, for our economy and for our planet. She is a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal, has signed the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge, and believes we must stand up to the fossil fuel companies, which means campaign finance reform and taking on special interests."

Pro
Should the US Rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement?

"Get the United States back in the International Climate Agreement on day one. On day one of Senator Klobuchar’s presidency she will get us back into the International Climate Change Agreement, working so that the United States maintains global leadership to address the climate crisis."

Pro
Should the US Re-Enter a Nuclear Deal with Iran?

"It was imperfect, but it was a good deal for that moment. I would have worked to get longer sunset periods, and that's something we could negotiate, to get back in the deal.

But the point is, Donald Trump told us when he got out of it that he was going to give us a better deal. Those were his words. And now we are a month away from the Iranians, who claim now that they're going blow the caps on enriching uranium. And the Iranians have told us this.

And so that's where we are now. He has made us less safe than we were when he became president. So what I would do is negotiate us back into that agreement, is stand with our allies, and not give unlimited leverage to China and Russia, which is what he has done."

Pro
Should Abortion Be Legal?

"Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio have all tried to effectively ban abortion this year. This is a coordinated attack on women's constitutional rights and we must fight back. #StopTheBans"

Pro
Should the Federal Government Intervene to Lower Prescription Drugs Costs?

"As President, Senator Klobuchar will tackle the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs by:

• Lifting the ban on Medicare negotiations for prescription drugs by passing and signing into law Senator Klobuchar’s Empowering Medicare Seniors to Negotiate Drug Prices Act...


• Stopping pharmaceutical companies from blocking less-expensive generics by passing and signing into law Senator Klobuchar’s bipartisan Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act and Biosimilars Act."

Pro
Should LGBTQ+ People Have Protection from Being Fired for Being LGBTQ+?

"For as far as we have come, we still have miles to go until LGBTQ Americans can live their lives with freedom, authenticity, and equality. Because it's not right that in some states you can get married on Sunday and fired from your job on Monday. It's not right that if you drive across the US on a cross-country trip, the laws and protections are different in every rest stop you make. And it's not right that the administration is trying to take away your hard won rights, and especially that they're trying to deny our patriotic transgender friends from serving in the military. That is wrong. That is wrong."

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Should Transgender People Be Allowed to Serve in the US Military?

"I was always understanding of some of the trans issues and was appalled of course by what’s been going on lately with this president going backwards in terms of patriotic trans members of our country wanting to simply serve in the military, and then he bans them from doing it — which is one of the first things I put in for my first 100 days when I am president, I’m going to reverse that."