Amy Klobuchar

U.S. 08/10/21, 00:07

Facebook's recent decision to suspend an academic study about political ads quickly drew outcry from U.S. lawmakers. The social media company thought it was a good idea to disable personal accounts and prevent general access for multiple New York University (NYU) researchers on Aug. 3. BL understands the study team was ...

2022 Campaign 05/11/20, 04:34

A Hollywood actor and director is happy for the Democratic Party to spend big to allow voting without having to attend local polling stations at the next general election. Rob Reiner has no qualms with the Democrats giving taxpayer money to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission for Americans to cast their ...

2022 Campaign 04/21/20, 04:01

A Democratic Party proposal to allow voting without having to attend local polling stations at the next general election could leave the country out of pocket by billions of dollars. Democrats want the Trump administration to approve $3.6 billion in federal funding for Americans to have an alternative to voting in-person ...

2022 Campaign 03/03/20, 05:27

A controversial Minnesota representative in Congress postponed her dream of becoming the next president on March 2. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has officially suspended her 2020 presidential campaign for the upcoming general election to be held on Nov. 3. “The Klobuchar campaign confirms the senator is flying to Dallas to join [former] ...

2022 Campaign 02/13/20, 05:21

An overwhelming majority of voters believe the president will return to the Oval Office after the next election, a new survey has found. Monmouth University Polling Institute's latest poll confirmed 66 percent of American voters think President Donald Trump will either definitely or probably be re-elected at the general election on ...

2022 Campaign 01/14/20, 06:11

Several Democratic Party candidates for president were criticized for remaining silent on mass demonstrations that shifted blame away from the U.S. president and targeted the Iranian regime instead. Initially only former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) responded to media reports that Iranian police and security forces had ...

2022 Campaign 12/03/19, 05:04

A Minnesota senator who is making a tilt for the Oval Office indicated she would not refrain from voting to convict the president on Dec. 1. Presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) appears to have no qualms with ousting Donald Trump before he has a chance to stand for re-election at ...

2022 Campaign 06/18/19, 04:17

Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar has released a list of 100-plus executive orders she said she'd sign in her first 100 days in office. The orders include rejoining the Paris climate agreement and allowing prescription drugs to be imported from Canada. The list is intended to give voters an idea of what ...

2022 Campaign 06/16/19, 09:37

After receding from the national stage, the free college movement is resurfacing as a central rallying point for Democrats as they set their sights on the White House. At least 18 of the party's 23 presidential contenders have come out in support of some version of free college. Sen. Elizabeth Warren ...

Politics 06/14/19, 12:50

The Latest on the Democrats' first 2020 presidential debates later this month (all times local): 12:45 p.m. NBC has announced how it will divvy up the 20 Democratic candidates for the first debate of the 2020 election campaign, which will be held over two nights in Miami later this month. Democratic presidential candidate ...

U.S. 06/12/19, 13:25

Two U.S. senators asked the FBI on Wednesday to explain what it has done to investigate the suspected hack by Russian intelligence of a Florida-based voting software company before the 2016 election.In a letter sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Amy Klobuchar of ...

2022 Campaign 06/09/19, 14:55

The Latest on the Democratic presidential candidates (all times local): 2:45 p.m. At an event meant to show off the Democratic presidential candidates' organizational strength in Iowa, campaign swag is king. Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, right, greets supporters before the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame Celebration, Sunday, June 9, 2019, in ...

Politics 05/23/19, 11:35

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is becoming a lightning rod for Democrats on the 2020 campaign trail. Several candidates have taken jabs at DeVos at recent campaign events as they try to energize voters and curry favor with the nation's two major teachers unions. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said this month that ...

Politics 05/19/19, 05:35

Former President Jimmy Carter carved an unlikely path to the White House in 1976 and endured humbling defeat after one term. Now, six administrations later, the longest-living chief executive in American history is re-emerging from political obscurity at age 94 to win over his fellow Democrats once again. A peanut farmer ...

Politics 05/05/19, 11:52

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten Glezman, joined the large crowd at former President Jimmy Carter's Sunday school class in rural South Georgia. At Carter's invitation Buttigieg stood and read from the Bible as part of the lesson at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains. "You know him?" Carter had ...

Politics 05/03/19, 14:09

Nevada's long crusade to block the creation of a national nuclear-waste dump at Yucca Mountain has pitted the state against a bipartisan group of lawmakers across the country, but a band of presidential hopefuls is joining the early voting state's cause. Last year, Nevada's two senators were the only sponsors of ...

Health 05/03/19, 04:09

Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar (KLOH'-buh-shar) has released a plan to spend $100 billion over a decade to improve mental health care and fight substance abuse.It's an issue the Minnesota senator has faced firsthand as the daughter of an alcoholic who struggled with addiction for years before getting sober.The wide-ranging ...

Politics 04/28/19, 09:02

Iowa voters sent a record number of women to the Legislature during last year's midterms. Women won two of the state's most competitive U.S. House races, and a woman was elected governor for the first time. Yet across Iowa, there's palpable anxiety among some Democratic women about nominating a female candidate ...

2022 Campaign 04/22/19, 22:47

The Latest on a series of town halls with five 2020 Democratic presidential candidates (all times local): 11:20 p.m. South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is addressing questions about his lack of policy specifics, saying he thinks he's been "pretty clear" about where he stands "on the major issues." At a CNN town ...

Politics 04/22/19, 22:24

The Latest on a series of town halls with five 2020 Democratic presidential candidates (all times local): 9:30 p.m. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he supports voting rights for felons, including the Boston Marathon bomber and people convicted of sexual assault. At a CNN town hall in New Hampshire on Monday, the ...