Amy Klobuchar

Co-introduced the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which became law and created federal protections against nonconsensual intimate images and sexual deepfakes.

May 19, 2025Supports AI Regulation

Source: apnews.com

Voted to take up a measure (S.J.Res. 198) overturning a Medicare rule that added prior-approval requirements for some services. The motion failed 46-50.

July 16, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: senate.gov

Voted for Senate passage of H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act, which included Medicare drug-price negotiation and clean-energy provisions.

August 7, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: senate.gov

Advocated at the Minnesota Legislature and helped pass a law requiring insurers to cover 48-hour hospital stays for new mothers and babies.

November 14, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: time.com

Voted for Senate passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

December 24, 2009Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: senate.gov

Voted to advance the Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act, which would have authorized federal negotiation of Medicare drug prices; the cloture motion failed.

April 18, 2007Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: senate.gov

Her bipartisan bill with Sen. John Curtis to renew and expand the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, a drowning-prevention law, passed the Senate Commerce Committee.

September 16, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted to take up a measure (S.J.Res. 187) overturning an EPA rule that delayed when companies must report their use of PFAS "forever chemicals." The motion failed 48-50.

August 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: senate.gov

Wrote to the CDC and FDA urging them to restore food-safety staff and funding that had been cut, during a national Cyclospora parasite outbreak.

July 14, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted to end debate on the Great American Outdoors Act, clearing the way for a final vote on the public lands funding bill. The motion passed 65-19.

June 12, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: senate.gov

Her bipartisan bill restoring full retirement benefits for certain Senate dining employees was signed into law.

June 12, 2019Supports Labor Rights

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

As Senate Rules Committee chair, released a bipartisan investigation report identifying security, planning, intelligence, and response failures surrounding the January 6 Capitol attack.

June 8, 2021Supports Government Efficiency

Source: rules.senate.gov

The Minnesota Commissioner of Administration found that the Hennepin County Attorney's Office did not respond promptly to four public-data requests made while she was county attorney.

October 19, 2006Opposes Government Efficiency

Source: mn.gov

Voted for a stopgap spending bill (H.R. 6500) to keep the federal government funded into fiscal year 2027. It passed the Senate 90-6.

August 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: senate.gov

Wrote to the CDC and FDA urging them to restore food-safety staff and funding that had been cut, during a national Cyclospora parasite outbreak.

July 14, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted for Senate passage of H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act, which included Medicare drug-price negotiation and clean-energy provisions.

August 7, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: senate.gov

Voted for Senate passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act vehicle funding highways, transit, and related infrastructure programs.

August 10, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: senate.gov

Announced that the signed year-end federal package included measures she advanced for broadband access, food assistance and livestock-producer relief.

December 30, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Secured provisions on animal disease preparedness, conservation, rural energy and dairy support in the signed 2018 Farm Bill.

December 20, 2018Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Served on the conference committee that drafted the 2014 Farm Bill and announced Senate passage of the final bill with rural-development, conservation and agricultural-research provisions.

February 4, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted for the final Senate motion adopting the Budget Control Act of 2011.

August 2, 2011Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: senate.gov

Voted for Senate passage of amended H.R. 1424, the emergency financial-stabilization legislation authorizing purchases and insurance of troubled financial assets.

October 1, 2008Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: senate.gov

Her bipartisan Stop Campus Hazing Act passed the Senate, requiring campus hazing reporting and prevention programs; it subsequently became law.

December 12, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted for the First Step Act, a federal prison and sentencing overhaul. The Senate passed it 87-12 (S. 756).

December 18, 2018Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: senate.gov

Three of her bipartisan measures targeting synthetic drugs, fentanyl shipments and patient-brokering kickbacks became law in the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act.

October 24, 2018Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Her bipartisan Court-Appointed Guardian Accountability and Senior Protection Act, strengthening oversight of guardians and conservators, was signed into law.

October 18, 2017Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Secured Senate passage of her Recovering Missing Children Act, allowing limited tax-record disclosures to help law enforcement locate missing or exploited children.

June 16, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted for Senate passage of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.

April 22, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: senate.gov

Secured passage in both chambers of provisions to ban nine synthetic substances, including 2C-E; they headed to the president as part of a larger bill.

June 26, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted for Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011.

April 26, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: senate.gov

Announced that the signed year-end federal package included measures she advanced for broadband access, food assistance and livestock-producer relief.

December 30, 2020Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Secured House and Senate passage of her provisions on STEM opportunities, teacher and principal retention, and chronic absenteeism within the Every Student Succeeds Act.

December 9, 2015Supports Public Education Quality

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted to advance the Right to Contraception Act; the cloture motion failed.

June 5, 2024Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: senate.gov

Co-introduced the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which became law and created federal protections against nonconsensual intimate images and sexual deepfakes.

May 19, 2025Supports Data Privacy

Source: apnews.com

Voted for Senate passage of H.R. 8404, the Respect for Marriage Act, protecting recognition of lawful marriages.

November 29, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: senate.gov

As Hennepin County attorney, supervised the office that prosecuted Myon Burrell in 2003; the conviction later drew scrutiny over investigative evidence, and she called for an independent review.

February 24, 2020Supports Civil Rights

Source: politifact.com

Voted for Senate passage of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act.

June 27, 2013Supports Civil Rights

Source: senate.gov

Secured congressional passage of the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, her bipartisan bill with Sen. Grassley increasing filing fees for the largest mergers to support antitrust enforcement.

December 23, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Co-introduced the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, which was signed into law after passing the Senate unanimously.

June 16, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: commerce.senate.gov

Chaired the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee’s first hearing of the 117th Congress and set out her proposed competition-law reforms.

March 11, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act to strengthen federal merger and anticompetitive-conduct enforcement; the proposal did not itself become law.

February 4, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted for the conference report on H.R. 4173, the Dodd-Frank financial-regulation overhaul, which the Senate approved.

July 15, 2010Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: senate.gov

Her bipartisan NOTAM Improvement Act with Rep. Pete Stauber was signed into law, requiring a task force to strengthen the Federal Aviation Administration’s flight-hazard notice system.

June 5, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted for Senate passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act vehicle funding highways, transit, and related infrastructure programs.

August 10, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: senate.gov

Led bipartisan legislation allowing the St. Croix River bridge project to proceed; the measure was signed into law.

March 14, 2012Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted for a measure (H.Con.Res. 89) directing the President to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran. It failed 49-50.

September 24, 2026

Source: senate.gov

Voted to end debate on a bill (S. 4668) setting national rules for college athletes' name, image, and likeness pay. The motion passed 74-25.

September 24, 2026

Source: senate.gov

Voted against starting debate on a bill (H.R. 3633) setting federal rules for selling cryptocurrency and barring a central bank digital currency. The motion failed 49-50.

September 15, 2026

Source: senate.gov

The U.S. Forest Service kept its research sites in Ely, Grand Rapids, and St. Paul open after she pressed it not to close them. She had led 36 senators in raising concerns about the closures.

September 8, 2026

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Won inclusion of a delay of the federal hemp ban, based on her bill with Sen. Rand Paul, in a bipartisan spending bill. Congress passed the bill, pushing the ban back to December 11, 2026.

September 1, 2026

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

The FEC sent her Senate campaign committee a letter asking it to explain a $42,695 "asset transfer" paid by her governor campaign. Her campaign said the payment bought a website domain and email list at fair market value.

August 27, 2026

Source: washingtonsun.com

Voted to block an amendment that sought to remove a delay of the federal hemp ban from the stopgap spending bill. The motion to block it passed 61-32.

August 8, 2026

Source: senate.gov

Voted against starting debate on a bill (S. 5271) requiring voters to show photo ID in federal elections. The motion failed 52-46; it needed 60 votes.

August 8, 2026

Source: senate.gov

Voted for a bill (H.R. 5334) imposing new sanctions on Russia. It passed the Senate 86-11.

August 7, 2026

Source: senate.gov

Voted to take up a measure (S.J.Res. 199) overturning a federal rule that loosened requirements in the Child Care and Development Fund. The motion failed 47-52.

July 30, 2026

Source: senate.gov

After she and other senators pressed the Agriculture Department, Secretary Brooke Rollins reversed a plan to end farmers' access to extra "prevented-plant" crop insurance coverage.

July 23, 2026

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted to force a Senate vote on a measure (S.J.Res. 180) ordering U.S. forces out of hostilities with Iran that Congress had not approved. The motion failed 47-49.

July 23, 2026

Source: senate.gov

Voted against starting debate on the yearly defense policy bill for fiscal year 2027 (S. 4784). The motion failed 50-46; it needed 60 votes.

July 14, 2026

Source: senate.gov

Received the Minnesota DFL endorsement for governor on the first convention ballot.

May 30, 2026

Source: dfl.org

Her bipartisan Abducted Ukrainian Children Recovery and Accountability Act with Sen. Grassley was signed into law, supporting identification and return of children taken during Russia’s war in Ukraine.

December 18, 2025

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted against Senate passage of amended H.R. 1, the 2025 federal budget-reconciliation package; it passed after the vice president broke a 50-50 tie.

July 1, 2025

Source: senate.gov

As ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, questioned Agriculture Secretary nominee Brooke Rollins at the committee’s nomination hearing.

January 23, 2025

Source: agriculture.senate.gov

Her bipartisan legislation designating the bald eagle as the United States’ national bird was signed into law.

December 26, 2024

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted for Senate passage of H.R. 3746, legislation suspending the federal debt limit and setting spending terms.

June 1, 2023

Source: senate.gov

Presided as chair of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee at its first organizational business meeting of the 117th Congress.

February 22, 2021

Source: rules.senate.gov

Former staff members reported demeaning treatment and unusually high turnover in her Senate office; she responded that she could always do better.

November 14, 2019

Source: time.com

Secured provisions on animal disease preparedness, conservation, rural energy and dairy support in the signed 2018 Farm Bill.

December 20, 2018

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Served on the conference committee that drafted the 2014 Farm Bill and announced Senate passage of the final bill with rural-development, conservation and agricultural-research provisions.

February 4, 2014

Source: klobuchar.senate.gov

Voted for Senate passage of amended H.R. 1424, the emergency financial-stabilization legislation authorizing purchases and insurance of troubled financial assets.

October 1, 2008

Source: senate.gov

The Minnesota Commissioner of Administration found that the Hennepin County Attorney's Office did not respond promptly to four public-data requests made while she was county attorney.

October 19, 2006

Source: validate.perfdrive.com