Amy Klobuchar

Amy Klobuchar   (politician, US/2020 Presidential election/Candidate)
Born	May 25, 1960
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Yale University, University of Chicago Law School
Member of	Council on Foreign Relations/Members 2
Democratic party up-and-coming politician

Amy Klobuchar is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota since 2007. She was a prospective candidate in the US/2020 Presidential election.

Career

Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for all criminal prosecution in Minnesota's most populous county. Klobuchar was first elected to the Senate in 2006, becoming Minnesota's first elected female United States senator, and was reelected in 2012 and 2018. In 2009 and 2010, she was described as a "rising star" in the Democratic Party.

She announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in the 2020 election on February 10, 2019; on March 2, 2020, she suspended her campaign and endorsed Joe Biden. In 2021, she became the chair of the Senate Rules Committee.

Klobuchar was the first speaker at Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021.

Political Positions

In 2011, Klobuchar introduced S.978, the Commercial Felony Streaming Act, a bill that would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted material for the purpose of "commercial advantage or personal financial gain" a felony under US copyright law. Backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and praised by industry groups, the legislation has been enormously unpopular among critics who believe it would apply to those who stream or post videos of copyrighted content on public sites such as YouTube.

In 2011, Klobuchar supported American military intervention in Libya.

In November 2017, in response to efforts by China to purchase tech companies based in the US, Klobuchar was one of nine senators to cosponsor a bill that would broaden the federal government's ability to prevent foreign purchases of U.S. firms through increasing the strength of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

In May 2018, Klobuchar was one of 12 senators to sign a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to remain in the Iran nuclear deal on the grounds that "Iran could either remain in the agreement and seek to isolate the United States from our closest partners, or resume its nuclear activities" if the US pulled out and that both possibilities "would be detrimental to our national security interests."

In March 2018, Klobuchar voted against tabling a resolution spearheaded by Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy, and Mike Lee that would have required Trump to withdraw American troops either in or influencing Yemen within the next 30 days unless they were combating Al-Qaeda.

In January 2019, following Juan Guaidó's self-declaration as interim President of Venezuela, Klobuchar said she supported the opposition to Nicolás Maduro.

In February 2019, Klobuchar supported the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which would make it legal for states to refuse to do business with contractors that engage in boycotts against Israel.

In 2021, she has proposed reform of Section 230, that will make Facebook liable for conspiracy theories, empowering internet censorship to take place.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Munich Security Conference/2013	1 February 2013	3 February 2013	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 49th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2022	18 February 2022	20 February 2022	Germany Munich Bavaria	Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here
Munich Security Conference/2023	17 February 2023	19 February 2023	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere.

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