Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) chuckled on Sunday when asked if it was appropriate for President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, to attend a state dinner where Attorney General Merrick Garland was also present just days after Hunter Biden was charged with tax crimes.
The segment came after news broke last week that Hunter Biden will <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-reaches-plea-deal-over-tax-crimes-report">plead guilty</a> to failing to pay about $100,000 in taxes for 2017 and for failing to pay a similar amount for the following year. The tax charges Hunter faces are misdemeanors.
The 53-year-old will reportedly enter a diversion program upon admitting the illegal purchase of a firearm in 2018. The gun charge could be revoked from his record upon completion.
Klobuchar was asked the question during an interview on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; with host Chuck Todd.
&#8220;Do you think it was appropriate for Hunter Biden to be at the same event as the attorney general, Merrick Garland, was in the same week he accepted a plea deal?&#8221; Todd asked.
&#8220;You know, I think, as the president explains, that&#8217;s his son,&#8221; Klobuchar responded after chuckling. &#8220;That&#8217;s a separate thing. And I would like to say about that: that decision was made by an independent prosecutor who is a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney who had ten years of experience, well respected.&#8221;
&#8220;Philadelphia Inquirer reported that he was a registered Republican,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;He looked at the facts and evidence and made that decision.&#8221;
Klobuchar said that she understood the &#8220;perception issue&#8221; of having Hunter Biden attend the event when Garland was there.
&#8220;You always wish there were different perceptions, but that&#8217;s not reality,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Reality is whether or not someone is going to be able to get their insulin. And the president has made changes.&#8221;
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Klobuchar Chuckles When Asked About Hunter Biden Going To Event Attended By Merrick Garland

Senator Klobuchar Chuckles When Asked About Hunter Biden Going To Event Attended By Merrick Garland

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A pair of Senate Democrats on Sunday defended President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> after a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/opinion/editorials/biden-age.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times editorial</a> raised concerns about the commander-in-chief&#8217;s age.
&#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; moderator Chuck Todd asked Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, if Biden should be doing more to assure Americans he is up to the job as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 election</a> approaches.
&#8220;I think his schedule reflects an active person, mentally and physically, who is engaging with the American people on a regular basis,&#8221; Durbin said during the NBC News interview.
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&quot;Should President Biden be doing more to show Americans that he&#39;s up to the job?&quot;
Democrat Senator Dick Durbin: &quot;I think his schedule reflects an active person, mentally and physically, who is engaging with the American people.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/SkdrwdryZa">pic.twitter.com/SkdrwdryZa</a>
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Todd asked the question after sharing an excerpt from the editorial about Biden, published on Saturday following reports saying the president is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/20/biden-reelection-announcement-next-week/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected to announce</a> his re-election campaign this week. Already the oldest person to be president at 80, Biden would be 86 at the end of a second term.
&#8220;Concerns about age — both in terms of fitness for office and being out of touch with the moment — are legitimate, as Mr. Biden acknowledged in an interview in February <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intention-run-biden-tells-abcs-muir-reelection-decision/story?id=97447706" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with ABC News</a>. His standard line, repeated in that interview, is: “The only thing I can say is, ‘Watch me,’” the editorial says.
&#8220;But Mr. Biden has given voters very few chances to do just that — to watch him — and his refusal to engage with the public regularly raises questions about his age and health,&#8221; the editorial adds.
Durbin went on to explain how he has seen evidence first-hand that assures him that Biden is still a capable president.
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what more they&#8217;re asking for, but I&#8217;ve been in meetings with him time after time,&#8221; Durbin said of Biden. &#8220;His performance tells me he&#8217;s up to the job, and does it well.&#8221;
Durbin <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-april-23-2023-n1304542" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>: &#8220;Let&#8217;s concede the obvious, what his age is. But let&#8217;s look at the obvious. He&#8217;s an active president who is meeting the challenges of America every day.&#8221;
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/02/klobuchar-to-drop-out-of-2020-campaign-endorse-biden-118823" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed Biden in 2020</a> upon ending her own presidential bid, faced similar questions about Biden&#8217;s fitness to serve during an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221;
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&quot;How do you think President Biden could overcome [concerns about his age and mental stamina]?&quot;
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“President Biden has such a strong record to run on,&#8221; Klobuchar said.
After reciting aspects of Biden&#8217;s record, Klobuchar argued the incumbent offers Americans a &#8220;steady hand&#8221; in the White House, comparing him to former President Donald Trump, who is running for re-election.
&#8220;People don&#8217;t want that chaos back again,&#8221; Klobuchar added.

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Dem Senators Play Defense After NYT Editorial On Biden’s Age

Dem Senators Play Defense After NYT Editorial On Biden's Age

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Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee discussed the collapse of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/cryptocurrency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cryptocurrency</a> exchange FTX in a Thursday hearing, during which a top regulator acknowledged that he met with former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried on multiple occasions.
FTX recently filed for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30-year-old-billionaire-loses-entire-fortune-overnight-as-his-bahamas-based-cryptocurrency-empire-implodes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bankruptcy</a> after users discovered that trading firm Alameda Research, a company run by Caroline Ellison — a former love interest of Bankman-Fried, had allegedly been using consumer funds from FTX to make investments.
During the hearing held by the committee, which was attended virtually by The Daily Wire, lawmakers repeatedly pushed the need for regulation through the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act, a piece of legislation that would <a href="https://www.agriculture.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/dccpa_fact_sheet.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eliminate</a> conflicts of interest and extend other protections to the cryptocurrency sector.
Ranking Member John Boozman (R-AR) emphasized that the committee should consider the regulation of cryptocurrencies because of the entity’s responsibility to execute “oversight of the nation’s commodity markets.” He said that digital assets such as bitcoin are regulated as commodities, a reality that federal courts have broadly recognized.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Rostin Behnam, a former senior counselor to Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and the sole regulator offering testimony, told lawmakers in his opening <a href="https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/opabehnam29" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that “nominal barriers to entry for new products and new consumers” in the cryptocurrency market have “taken the place of legitimate market forces” and placed the public at “significant risk.” He expressed support for the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act as a step in the right direction toward regulating the industry.
“For years many have recognized that a patchwork of federal and state-based regulation is an unsuitable substitute for a comprehensive approach,” he remarked. “We are here today because many Americans invested in a novel product and will likely lose money because digital asset markets lack the basic protections that we have all come to expect and have made American financial markets the envy of the world.”
LedgerX, a derivatives platform acquired by FTX last year, had extensive communication with the CFTC regarding the company’s push to become a registered derivatives clearinghouse. Behnam said that he personally met with Bankman-Fried 10 times over the past 14 months to discuss the application out of a “dogged desire” to ensure that the initiative would be properly scrutinized.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), a co-sponsor of the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act, denied that Bankman-Fried had an undue influence over the bill.
Bankman-Fried, a top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-dont-even-know-how-to-code-mit-grad-and-now-broke-crypto-ceo-sam-bankman-fried-tells-niche-vlogger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contributor</a> to Democratic and Republican campaigns, has repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-denies-wrongdoing-in-ftx-implosion-during-live-streamed-new-york-times-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> that he did not intentionally commingle funds between FTX and Alameda Research. The disgraced entrepreneur attempted with little success to raise as much as $8 billion from new investors to reimburse defrauded users of the company, which is based in the Bahamas.
FTX had received stellar corporate governance ratings from agencies considering the venture’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) qualifications, even though Bankman-Fried later admitted that his professed status as an “effective altruist” was largely a ruse to win the trust of “woke westerners.” Behnam expressed openness to discussing regulations upon ESG ratings in the cryptocurrency space when pressed on the matter by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).
FTX spent extensively to recruit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-brady-steph-curry-other-celebrities-sued-for-pushing-ponzi-scheme-ftx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrity brand ambassadors</a>, such as Tampa Bay Buccanneers quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel ex-wife Gisele Bündchen, many of whom participated in mass-market advertisements. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) asserted that such marketing efforts stoke “fears of missing out” among unwitting consumers, prompting Behnam to remark that advertisements must ensure “investors understand the risk of the underlying asset.”
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) noted that the use of cryptocurrency to support <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-attorneys-bust-crypto-money-laundering-ring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criminal enterprises</a> has enabled the fentanyl crisis and other national security concerns, asking whether a pause on the digital asset sector in the United States would be feasible. Behnam noted that a significant number of Americans would nevertheless gain access to overseas cryptocurrency markets.

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As Hurricane Ian hurtled toward Florida, packing 155 mph winds, politicians and commentators were busy bloviating, blowing out their own hot air.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) went so far as to say electing Democrats in the November midterms will help stop hurricanes.
&#8220;If the Republicans take charge, a number of them have been talking about an abortion ban, you guys know that, you featured it on the show,&#8221; Klobuchar <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/27/senator-amy-klobuchar-hurricane-ian-democrat-climate-change-vote-midterm-elections-senate-majority/">said</a> on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s why we got to win this midterm. We just did something about climate change for the first time in decades, that’s why we got to win this as that hurricane bears down on Florida. We got to win in the midterms,&#8221; she said.
Meanwhile, Politico, a liberal website founded by two former Washington Post reporters, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/27/desantis-faces-the-true-test-of-any-florida-governor-00058925">sought to hit</a> Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican &#8212; even before the hurricane hit.
And it only took two paragraphs for the site to get a fact completely wrong.
&#8220;Gov. Ron DeSantis spent his first term becoming one of the most influential Republicans in the country — a likely 2024 frontrunner who’s already shaping his party’s national agenda,&#8221; reporter Matt Dixon wrote.
&#8220;But DeSantis still hasn’t faced one of the toughest challenges a Florida leader can encounter: a major hurricane.&#8221;
The site later added this at the bottom of the story (while weirdly leaving graf 2 intact): &#8220;CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to add that Hurricane Sally affected the western part of the Florida Panhandle in 2020.&#8221;
Down in Florida, a reporter asked DeSantis about remarks made by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator Deanne Criswell on Tuesday.
“FEMA Administrator Criswell said today she acknowledged concerns about Florida’s … as it was said … lax response to the storm so far &#8212; &#8221; the reporter started before DeSantis cut him off.
&#8220;Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, give me a break. That is nonsense. Stop politicizing, OK? Stop it. We declared a state of emergency when this thing wasn’t even formed. We’ve had people in here. We’ve had counties that have done a lot of hard work.&#8221;
&#8220;And honestly, you’re trying to attack me, I get it, but you’re attacking these other people who’ve worked very hard. So that’s just totally false,&#8221; DeSantis said.
For the record, the question was wrong, anyway. What Criswell said during the White House press briefing was how the Gulf of Mexico region of Florida hadn&#8217;t taken a direct hit in several years and had nothing to do with the state&#8217;s preparation.
Last year, President Joe Biden got in on the act when he said preparing for a hurricane was just one more reason to &#8230; get vaccinated?
&#8220;Let me be clear: If you&#8217;re in a state where hurricanes often strike like Florida or the Gulf Coast or Texas, a vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/JoePCunningham/status/1574884405541216267">said</a>. &#8220;Everything is more complicated if you&#8217;re not vaccinated and hurricane preventable disaster hits.&#8221;
Joe Concha, longtime political commentator from The Hill, knew this was all coming, that the media and politicians would make the hurricane partisan.
&#8220;This is a serious time for serious journalism. But you know that there are some folks in this industry that are licking their chops, just waiting to turn this particular hurricane into Ron DeSantis&#8217;s Katrina, as if he could have done something to better prepare the state or done X-Y-Z, then he could have saved lives or saved businesses or saved homes,&#8221; Concha said on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-concha-liberal-media-pundits-licking-chops-take-shots-ron-desantis-hurricane-ian">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;If we&#8217;re going to start blaming governors when hurricanes hit in these situations, when they appear to be doing everything they can to prepare their citizens, you know that it&#8217;s a midterm year. And quite frankly, you know that 2024 is ahead. And as we&#8217;ve seen time and again with Ron DeSantis, they see him as a true threat in terms of winning the presidency and will take any shot, even the cheap shots, even the shots that don&#8217;t exist, like hurricanes that actually hit states when they say it didn&#8217;t. And just to try to take him down,&#8221; he added.
Initial reports say Hurricane Ian will likely wreak havoc for several more days. Most people will send their thoughts and prayers &#8212; and money &#8212; to help the survivors, politicians and pundits will no doubt seek political gain from the misery.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Nowadays, Everything Is Political — Even The Weather!

Nowadays, Everything Is Political -- Even The Weather

Hurricane Ian

Morning Joe

Politico

Amid news of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/inflation">inflation</a> reaching another record high, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democrats">Democrats</a> are circling their wagons around legislation meant to crack down on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/economy">corporations</a> purportedly engaged in price-gouging.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-reaches-8-6-setting-new-four-decade-high">rose</a> 8.6% between May 2021 and May 2022 — meaning that inflation reached its highest levels in four decades, a Friday morning report from the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm">U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics</a> revealed. The new figure was worse than the Dow Jones estimate of 8.3% year-over-year inflation in May, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/09/may-consumer-inflation-expected-fiery-hot-as-gas-food-and-rent-rose.html#:~:text=The%20CPI%20report%20is%20released,ET%20Friday.">CNBC</a>.
President Biden characterized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine">Ukraine</a> as the main factor behind the higher prices.
“Putin’s Price Hike hit hard in May here and around the world: high gas prices at the pump, energy, and food prices accounted for around half of the monthly price increases, and gas pump prices are up by $2 a gallon in many places since Russian troops began to threaten Ukraine,” Biden said in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/10/statement-by-president-biden-on-consumer-price-index-cpi-in-may/">statement</a>. “Even as we continue our work to defend freedom in Ukraine, we must do more — and quickly — to get prices down here in the United States.”
Although most social media accounts for Democratic members of the Senate discussed the January 6 protest hearings on Friday morning while remaining silent about inflation, two lawmakers — Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/amy-klobuchar">Amy Klobuchar</a> (D-MN) and Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elizabeth-warren">Elizabeth Warren</a> (D-MA) — called for Congress to pass their preferred legislation in the interest of slashing prices.
Klobuchar — pointing toward a Thursday tweet from President Joe Biden that blames high prices on “a handful of companies who control the market” for shipping — referred to her <a href="https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/3/klobuchar-thune-bipartisan-legislation-to-help-fix-supply-chain-and-ease-shipping-backlogs-passes-senate">Ocean Shipping Reform Act</a> as a mechanism to prevent the firms from “jacking up prices.”
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My bipartisan bill with Sen. Thune will help crack down on these multinational shipping conglomerates that are jacking up prices and finally help American businesses get a fair shot. Thanks for the support, President Biden, and to Rep. Garamendi and Rep. Johnson in the House! <a href="https://t.co/P8E6ftbJt8">https://t.co/P8E6ftbJt8</a>
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If signed into law, the bill would render it harder “for ocean carriers to unreasonably refuse goods ready to export at ports,” according to Klobuchar’s office. The legislation advanced through the Senate unanimously.
Meanwhile, Warren lauded Klobuchar’s <a href="https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/10/klobuchar-grassley-colleagues-to-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-rein-in-big-tech">American Innovation and Choice Online Act</a> — which, according to Warren, would “promote competition and lower consumer prices” by banning technology firms from “favoring their own products.”
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Big Tech companies and their army of lobbyists are trying to stop bipartisan bills to promote competition and lower consumer prices—including <a href="https://twitter.com/SenAmyKlobuchar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenAmyKlobuchar</a>&#8216;s bill prohibiting tech platforms from favoring their own products. We need to pass these bills.<a href="https://t.co/1oP0gSHkjP">https://t.co/1oP0gSHkjP</a>
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1535264825743482880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“The nation’s largest tech companies, such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, have faced accusations of prioritizing their own products on their platforms, using their market power to edge out competitors, and limiting consumers’ choice,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said of the legislation last year, according to Klobuchar&#8217;s office.
Before it began to climb, inflation was 1.4% in January 2021, <a href="https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm">according</a> to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Over the past year and a half, Democrats have repeatedly emphasized the alleged role of corporations in raising prices.
Ahead of Thanksgiving, for example, Warren <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dismissing-inflation-concerns-warren-asks-the-doj-to-probe-poultry-companies-for-corporate-greed-in-raising-turkey-prices">blamed</a> meat and poultry producers of “price fixing,” “excessive consolidation,” and “plain-old corporate greed” as turkey prices rose — and called for the Department of Justice to take action.
“Lack of competition in the poultry industry is allowing these massive companies to squeeze both American consumers and farmers to fuel record corporate profits and payouts to shareholders,” she argued. “When companies have monopoly power as massive suppliers, they can jack up prices of the goods they sell.”
Warren, however, rejected the possibility that firms’ price increases are related to “inflationary costs” — even as reports <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thanksgiving-just-got-more-expensive">indicated</a> that the high price of corn feed was causing a modest decline in turkey production.
More recently, New York Attorney General Letitia James, another Democrat, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-yorks-democratic-ag-goes-after-price-gouging-amid-formula-shortage">called</a> on baby formula retailers to “stop overcharging” for the scarce product.
“It’s unconscionable that some retailers are taking advantage of the national baby formula shortage while parents are struggling to find food for their children,” she said. “Amid this crisis, families already have enough to worry about and should not have to worry about being price gouged. We are warning all retailers that New York will not tolerate price gouging of baby formula, and I encourage anyone who sees this to continue reporting it to my office.”

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Here’s How Democrats Are Reacting To Inflation Reaching New Highs

Democrats Blame Corporations For Record-High Inflation

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President Joe Biden gave a statement Sunday following the news that former Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) had passed away at the age of 88. Biden, as Vice President, presided over Hatch in 2013 as he swore in for his final term in the Senate.
Hatch, whose tenure as the longest-serving Republican senator in history (1977-2019) overlapped with Biden&#8217;s time serving in the deliberative body, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/orrin-hatch-longest-serving-republican-in-history-dies-at-88/">died on Saturday</a>. A statement from the Hatch Foundation read, in part, &#8220;Upon his retirement, Senator Hatch held the distinction of having passed more legislation into law than any other Senator alive. Through his relentless work ethic, Hatch earned a reputation as one of the most effective and bipartisan lawmakers of all time. In total, he sponsored or cosponsored more than 750 bills that became law.&#8221;
&#8220;Biden on the passing of his friend, late GOP UT Sen Orrin Hatch. Biden says Hatch “never humored a bully, or shied from a challenge … saw that energetic, sharp-elbowed Orrin in the many battles we had over tax policy, the right of workers to join a union, and many others,&#8221; Fox News Congressional reporter Chad Pergram tweeted.
&#8220;Biden: Senator Hatch was also a man of deep faith; a gentle soul who wrote songs and poems. This was the Orrin who looked out for the people who often didn’t have a voice in our laws and our country &#8230; He was, quite simply, an American original,&#8221; Pergram&#8217;s second tweet added.
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B) Biden: Senator Hatch was also a man of deep faith; a gentle soul who wrote songs and poems..This was the Orrin who looked out for the people who often didn’t have a voice in our laws and our country..He was, quite simply, an American original.
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Hatch, who was often praised for his willingness to work across the aisle, lamented the growing divide between the parties during his retirement announcement in 2018.
&#8220;My heart is heavy because it aches for the times when we actually lived up to our reputation as the world’s greatest deliberative body. It longs for the days in which Democrats and Republicans would meet on middle ground rather than retreat to partisan trenches,&#8221; he said.
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) noted his willingness to work with her despite their political — and other — differences of opinion in a tribute posted Saturday evening, just after the news broke.
&#8220;Senator Hatch was kind to me and we worked together well. There were a lot of differences including party, height, age…you name it…but somehow we always looked for common ground. Prayers for his family today,&#8221; she tweeted.
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Senator Hatch was kind to me and we worked together well. There were a lot of differences including party, height, age…you name it…but somehow we always looked for common ground. Prayers for his family today. 🙏
Former Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch dies at 88 <a href="https://t.co/WkXEGlwk8V">https://t.co/WkXEGlwk8V</a>
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David Axelrod, who served in former President Barack Obama&#8217;s White House, also remembered Hatch for his kind words — offered even to those who often disagreed with him.
&#8220;At a low moment during my WH years, when a barbed piece about me had been written, I got an unexpected call from Sen. Orrin Hatch, whom I knew, but not well. &#8216;Don&#8217;t let the bastards get you down,&#8217; he said,&#8221; Axelrod tweeted. &#8220;It was a kindness, unusual in Washington, I&#8217;ll never forget. May he RIP.&#8221;
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At a low moment during my WH years, when a barbed piece about me had been written, I got an unexpected call from Sen. Orrin Hatch, whom I knew, but not well. &quot;Don&#39;t let the bastards get you down,&quot; he said. It was a kindness, unusual in Washington, I&#39;ll never forget. May he RIP.
&mdash; David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1518218103783628800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) once again called for the end of the filibuster Sunday, this time implying that it would be the solution to so many policy problems, including the recent dispute over abortions in Texas.
Speaking to CNN “State Of The Union” host Dana Bash, Klobuchar hammered the Texas “heartbeat” law, which bans most abortions at around six weeks and empowers private parties to sue those who &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-abortion-providers-request-to-stay-texas-heartbeat-law">aid and abet</a>&#8221; illegal abortion procedures, and suggested that the solution to stopping the law and similar laws was to enshrine Roe v Wade at the congressional level.
“My solution to this — which is my solution for voting rights and so many other things, including climate change, where one side of the country is in flames and the other side of the country is flooded with people dying submerged in their cars — I believe we should abolish the filibuster,” <a href="https://www.axios.com/amy-klobuchar-abortion-filibuster-6fbc3bc1-0e92-47c9-b3e7-59879efdf30f.html">said</a> Klobuchar.
She derided the filibuster, which allows for the Senate to require 60 votes to pass bills, as an “archaic rule” that prevents them from “taking action” on important issues. Notably, Klobuchar is one of a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/08/calls-end-filibuster-have-bigger-problems-than-joe-manchin/">number of Senate Democrats</a> who have embraced making changes to the filibuster or outright eliminating it.
“The challenges that are facing our country right now — now and over the next years — we just will get nowhere if we keep this filibuster in place,” said the Minnesota Democrat.
Last week, the Supreme Court refused to intervene to stop the Texas “heartbeat” law from taking effect. The law bans nearly all abortions once the earliest signs of a fetal heartbeat can be detected, specifically, the “cardiac activity or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart within the gestational sac,” <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/02/texas-abortion-heartbeat-bill/">notes</a> The Texas Tribune.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal-leaning justices in voting to block the law on a preliminary basis. They lost 5-4.
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), an opponent of abortion, accused Democrats of misunderstanding the high court&#8217;s reasoning, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/05/texas-abortion-law-cassidy-509729">according</a> to POLITICO. &#8220;It was about if they had standing, nothing to do with constitutionality,&#8221; said Cassidy, who also suggested Democrats were trying to &#8220;gin up their base&#8221; to distract from Afghanistan and other policies.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Thursday that lawmakers will vote on the “Women’s Health Protection Act” when they return for session. In a statement, Pelosi compared the Texas law&#8217;s enforcement mechanism to a &#8220;vigilante bounty system.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/pelosi-vows-vote-to-enshrine-abortion-on-demand-in-response-to-texas-law/">National Review</a>, the Democratic bill would “establish a federal right to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy if a single doctor asserted the abortion was necessary to protect the mental and emotional health of a woman seeking an abortion.” Even if the bill were to pass the Democrat-controlled House, however, it would still need ten Republican votes in the Senate to become law — all but a guarantee that it will fail.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), a former Democratic presidential candidate and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which holds hearings on Supreme Court nominees, weighed in on the tenure of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breyer-retire-campaign-emerges-to-drive-82-year-old-liberal-off-supreme-court">Justice Steven Breyer</a> on Sunday, saying that if the associate justice plans to step down from the court for retirement, he should do it sooner rather than later. 
During an appearance on <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vfTkUgBAGHj0z7O2fizEMwxfI7jNMMuHi-3V5ANGEuo/edit">CNN</a>’s “State of the Union,” Klobuchar was asked whether Breyer, who will be 83 next month, should retire while a Democrat is in the oval office, given that the justice says that he hasn’t made a decision on when he does plan to retire. 
“Your fellow Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal says he’s very concerned about the liberal wing of the court being sustainable, so is Justice Breyer making a mistake by not retiring,” CNN host Dana Bash asked the Minnesota Democratic senator. 
“I’m not going to speculate on his retirement,” Klobuchar responded. “But in your exclusive interview, from CNN, it was very clear that he said two reasons: One is health, that he’d look at, and two, the court. Well when you look at the court, he has to be concerned about the make-up, and you have to be concerned with how you get a justice on the court, with all of the manipulation that Mitch McConnell has engaged in.”
“So that would lead me to say, sooner rather than later,” Klobuchar added. “He makes his own decision about if he’s going to retire, but if he’s going to retire, it should be sooner rather than later if you are concerned about the court, because what happens in the U.S. Senate matters.”
Breyer, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, is one of three reliably liberal votes on the Supreme Court, and his retirement — should he choose to pursue it during the Biden administration — would allow the Democrats to avoid the possibility of yet another Republican president appointing the replacement for a liberal-leaning justice. 
Demand Justice, a progressive group, has been building a pressure campaign to, in the words of the group&#8217;s leader, get liberal voters to realize the &#8220;importance of every single vacancy, and the need to start building a more enduring bloc on the court,&#8221; <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/breyer-retire-campaign-supreme-court/2021/05/24/id/1022483/">Newsmax</a> reported in May.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who notably does not vote on appointees but has one of the largest public platforms on the progressive Left, said last week that she was &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/13/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-stephen-breyer-retire-cnntv/index.html">inclined to say yes</a>&#8221; when asked whether Breyer should retire from the bench.
Notably, the late Justice Ruth Bader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-didnt-retire-because-she-wanted-hillary-clinton-to-name-her-successor-daughter-says">Ginsburg refused to step down</a> while former President Obama was in office because, according to her daughter, she wanted 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to appoint her successor. But when Clinton lost the presidential election to Donald Trump, Ginsburg could no longer step down without a Republican getting the chance to replace her. She died less than two months ahead of the presidential election. 
And only days from the election, Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to replace her.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) fumed at President Donald Trump late on Tuesday night after he demanded that Americans get bigger stimulus checks. Trump, said the former Democratic presidential candidate, was &#8220;literally&#8221; trying to destroy the country.
Klobuchar made the remarks during an interview on MSNBC in response to Trump saying earlier in the evening that he wanted Americans to get significantly larger stimulus checks. “I’m asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000 or $4,000 for a couple,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-shreds-coronavirus-stimulus-bill-demands-congress-give-significantly-larger-checks">said</a> in a video that he posted online. “I’m also asking Congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation and to send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a COVID relief package.”
MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow asked Klobuchar what she thought of the remarks that Trump made during the video, to which she responded, &#8220;I kept thinking tonight while these pardons are an attack on our very democracy, this is an attack on every American, people who are struggling to get by right now, out of work, whose unemployment, the unemployment is going to basically end the day after Christmas if this doesn’t pass.&#8221;
&#8220;People who are out of work, people who need the help, the vaccine distribution is in this, $30 billion, these vaccines are not going to just parachute into a small town in the middle of Minnesota,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We need the help for the states to get the vaccines out, and he is literally undermining our entire effort on testing and vaccine distribution. This was a hard-fought negotiation. Of course you’re right, Democrats were pushing for more funds for the individual payments, but in the end, this was a negotiation, and he knows very well, we’re reaching the end here with the unemployment, with our small businesses can’t take it anymore.”
“It is the second biggest stimulus in the history of America and for him to turn this down, obviously we have the votes to override his veto,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;But he should not being doing this right now when his own treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, was involved in the negotiations from beginning to end. He is literally trying to burn this country down on his way out as I said at the beginning.&#8221;
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Amy Klobuchar says Trump refusing to sign a bill that gives people next to nothing and wanting instead for people to receive $2k is an attack on every American. <a href="https://t.co/Eoa6B4797R">pic.twitter.com/Eoa6B4797R</a>
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Klobuchar&#8217;s attack on the president for wanting to increase the size of the stimulus checks clashes with some other Democrats&#8217; responses. Reps. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) both <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-tlaib-rush-to-suggest-they-get-credit-for-trump-wanting-2000-checks-our-legislation">appeared to rush</a> to try to suggest that they should get credit for Trump wanting the larger package. Trump explicitly attacked Democrats during his remarks, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-shreds-coronavirus-stimulus-bill-demands-congress-give-significantly-larger-checks">saying</a>, &#8220;Democrats cruelly blocked COVID relief legislation in an effort to advance their extreme left-wing agenda and influence the election.&#8221;
Democrat House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-praising-600-checks-as-significant-pelosi-appears-to-try-to-take-credit-for-trump-wanting-more">Nancy Pelosi</a> and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer both rushed to claim that Trump had come around and agreed to give to Americans what they had wanted.
“Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks,” Pelosi wrote on Twitter. “At last, the President has agreed to $2,000 — Democrats are ready to bring this to the floor this week by unanimous consent. Let’s do it!”
&#8220;We spent months trying to secure $2000 checks but Republicans blocked it,&#8221; Schumer wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Trump needs to sign the bill to help people and keep the government open and we&#8217;re glad to pass more aid Americans need. Maybe Trump can finally make himself useful and get Republicans not to block it again.&#8221;
However, Pelosi praised this week a $900 billion that gave out $600 checks to Americans as “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-praises-600-stimulus-check-as-significant-had-very-different-words-for-trump-tax-cut-bonuses-to-workers-in-2018">significant</a>,” which comes after she <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-defends-rejection-trump-administrations-stimulus-offer-2020-12">rejected</a> a $1.8 trillion offer from the administration before the election that <a href="https://archive.is/DMnkK">CNBC</a> said included stimulus checks of $1,200 for adults and $1,000 per child.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar dropped out of contention to be former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate against President Trump.
Klobuchar (D-MN) announced her decision on Thursday in an interview on MSNBC. The lawmaker and failed presidential candidate said she was stepping back because Biden should pick a “woman of color” to run with him.
“I’ve never commented on this process at all, but let me tell you this after what I’ve seen in my state, what I’ve seen across the country,” Klobuchar said.
“This is a historic moment, and America must seize on this moment, and I truly believe – as I actually told the vice president last night when I called him – that I think this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket,” she continued. “There are so many incredibly qualified women, but if you want to heal this nation right now – my party, yes, but our nation – this is sure a hell of a way to do it.”
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Klobuchar’s stock as a vice president has fallen in recent week as civil unrest has grown in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in police custody on May 25. Floyd, a black man, died after a Minneapolis police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. The unrest has consequently created pressure on the Biden campaign to choose a black running mate. He had already pledged to pick a woman.
The Minnesota senator’s stock took another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amy-klobuchars-veepstakes-rating-tanks-after-it-emerges-she-passed-on-prosecuting-officer-at-center-of-george-floyds-death">dive</a> after her record as the Hennepin County district attorney came under scrutiny in the wake of Floyd’s death. Klobuchar was forced to correct multiple reports that she had “declined” to prosecute the now-fired Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin for a 2006 incident that took place while she was DA.
“I never declined [Chauvin’s] case,” Klobuchar said in a May 29 interview with MSNBC. “It was handled and sent to the grand jury. When I was county attorney, cases we had involving officer-involved shootings went to a grand jury. I think that was wrong, now. It would have been much better if I took responsibility and looked at cases and made a decision myself.”
The betting market on <a href="https://bookies.com/news/joe-biden-vp-pick-odds">Bookies.com</a> has placed Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), and former national security adviser Susan Rice as the top three candidates most likely to be tapped as Biden’s vice president. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is fourth.
Biden has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uh-oh-joe-biden-spokesperson-says-dem-nominee-doesnt-want-to-defund-the-police">distanced</a> himself from some of the grassroots movements that are pushing his campaign to pick a black person as his vice president. The former vice president has stated that he does not support defunding the police. Harris, on the other hand, has defended the movement as a call to redistribute some funds going toward policing into community social work.
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Klobuchar Drops Out Of Veep Contention: ‘Put A Woman Of Color On That Ticket’

With riots raging in cities across the nation, the odds that Rep. Val Demings will become Joe Biden&#8217;s running mate keep rising.
The 63-year-old Democrat is a former career law enforcement officer, serving as chief of police in Orlando, FL, for four years before entering politics.
&#8220;Florida Rep. Val Demings’ odds to be Joe Biden’s running mate continued to surge on Monday, moving up to +500 from +1200 at the beginning of last week and +2000 just two weeks ago,&#8221; according to <a href="https://bookies.com/news/joe-biden-vp-pick-odds">Bookies.com</a> political betting analyst Dan Kilbridge.
That puts Val Demings in second place, behind only Sen. Kamala Harris, who is also black. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who is white, continues to drop in the odds after a Minneapolis police officer was charged for the death of an unarmed black man on May 25.
&#8220;The gains made by Demings and, to a lesser degree, Harris are undoubtedly tied to Klobuchar’s slipping odds amid the unrest in Minneapolis and around the nation. The charges against the Minneapolis police officer further shines a spotlight on Klobuchar’s track record as Hennepin County prosecutor, which had already been a cause of concern for many progressives. Klobuchar was as high as +300 less than a week ago,&#8221; Kilbridge said.
Now, Klobuchar is at +800, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has moved into third place, at +650. But Harris still has the best odds, at +125.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Biden has already pledged to pick a female running mate. After he told a black radio host that &#8220;if you have a problem figuring out whether you&#8217;re for me or Trump, then you ain&#8217;t black&#8221; — and amid race riots — political pundits and pollsters are predicting that the former vice president could well be under pressure to pick a black female as his running mate in 2020.
Demings has a slew of plusses. She brings the possibility that she could help deliver Florida, always a swing state in presidential elections.
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said this week that Biden faces &#8220;increasing pressure&#8221; to pick a black woman.
“He has already said that he’s guaranteed to choose a woman,” York said last week on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox News</a>. “And he’s under increasing pressure now for it to be a woman of color.”
“We’ve heard about Kamala Harris, we’ve heard about Stacey Abrams, we’ve heard about Val Demings, and he said they are all on his list right now,” York said.
Biden tried to assuage anger over his &#8220;you ain&#8217;t black&#8221; comment, expressing regret for his remarks during a phone conversation with The U.S. Black Chambers Inc.
“The bottom line of all of this perhaps I was much too cavalier,” Biden said. “I know that the comments have come off like I was taking the African-American vote for granted but nothing could be further from the truth … I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy.”
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Minnesota Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar&#8217;s chances of becoming presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden&#8217;s running mate tanked overnight amid reports that Klobuchar &#8220;declined to prosecute multiple officers cited for excessive force,&#8221; including the Minneapolis police officer who was filmed with his knee on George Floyd&#8217;s neck, a claim Klobuchar has since refuted.
That officer, Derek Chauvin, was arrested Friday morning in connection with Floyd&#8217;s death.
Klobuchar served as the Hennepin County attorney, which covers Minneapolis, for eight years. Now, her prosecutorial record is under scrutiny amid reports that Chauvin was one of several officers she passed on making a decision to prosecute, even after Chauvin was involved in the shooting death &#8220;of a man who had stabbed other people before attacking police.&#8221;
&#8220;Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin saw at least 10 conduct complaints during his 19-year tenure before he was fired Tuesday, according to a database that documents complaints against police,&#8221; said <a href="https://theweek.com/speedreads/916926/amy-klobuchar-didnt-prosecute-officer-center-george-floyds-death-left-case-successor">The Week</a> Thursday in a report citing The Guardian, which first pored over the database.
&#8220;Klobuchar did not prosecute Chauvin and other officers involved in the first death, which occurred in October 2006 while she was running for Senate,&#8221; the outlet continued. &#8220;The case was under investigation when Klobuchar took office in the Senate in January 2007, and later went to a grand jury, which declined to charge the officers.&#8221;
Klobuchar refuted the claim that she &#8220;declined&#8221; to prosecute Chauvin&#8217;s case during an interview with MSNBC Friday, but said that she regrets not taking a more aggressive role in officer-involved shootings as a prosecutor.
&#8220;I never declined [Chauvin&#8217;s] case,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was handled and sent to the grand jury. When I was county attorney, cases we had involving officer-involved shootings went to a grand jury. I think that was wrong, now. It would have been much better if I took responsibility and looked at cases and made a decision myself.&#8221;
Her explanation may come just a little too late to save her chances of becoming vice president. Already this week, racial justice advocates were voicing complaints about Klobuchar, suggesting that Klobuchar, as a prosecutor, had a &#8220;tough-on-crime&#8221; approach that disproportionately targeted minorities for small-time offenses.
Now, those complaints are only amplified, particularly after, as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amy-klobuchar-was-a-tough-on-crime-prosecutor-will-a-diverse-democratic-base-accept-her-record/2019/03/21/739e6984-4057-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html">the Washington Post notes</a>, voters are now discovering that Klobuchar &#8220;declined to bring charges in more than two dozen cases in which people were killed in encounters with police.&#8221;
Although there is likely no polling on the issue as of yet, Klobuchar&#8217;s Vegas odds (<a href="https://www.us-bookies.com/election/">via US Bookies</a>) took a hit overnight. She is now at 7-to-1 odds of becoming Biden&#8217;s running mate, well behind Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), with 6-to-5 odds, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), with 5-to-1 odds.
Minneapolis is currently engulfed in protests, many of which have turned violent, in response to Floyd&#8217;s death at the hands of Minneapolis police &#8212; a death clearly captured on a video that went viral earlier this week. Chauvin, the officer seen kneeling on Floyd&#8217;s neck as Floyd struggles and repeatedly tells the officer he cannot breathe, was arrested Friday morning, four days after the incident and after days of demonstrations.
This article has been revised for clarity and emphasis.
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