Senator Amy Klobuchar Finds Joy in Perseverance
Next Question with Katie Couric
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🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Senator Amy Klobuchar believes that a certain amount of optimism is essential in overcoming obstacles, “Whether it’s through an illness, or whether it’s through trying to get a bill through congress.” And she’s had more than her share of experience with both. On this episode of Next Question, Katie and Senator Klobuchar talk about her getting-things-done mindset, and how it found its way into the pages of her new book, The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Pandemic, a Campaign, an Insurrection, and Life’s Other Unexpected Curveballs. While the Senator has been through a lot the past few years, she’s well aware that she’s not alone. Now, she’s ready to rejoice in the comeback.
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| 1:12.9 | Americans got a glimpse of Senator Amy Klobuchar's no nonsense confidence in action was February 2020 |
| 1:21.0 | at the Democratic presidential primary debate in New Hampshire. When we were in the last debate, |
| 1:26.0 | Mayor, you basically mocked the hundred years of experience on the stage. And what do I see on |
| 1:34.0 | this stage? I see Elizabeth's work starting the consumer. This is Senator Klobuchar taking a |
| 1:39.6 | then 38-year-old Pete Buttigieg to task on something heat said at the presidential debate in Iowa |
| 1:46.1 | just weeks before. Sanders' work of working to get the veterans bill passed across the aisle. |
| 1:52.5 | And I see what I've done, which is to negotiate three farm bills and be someone that actually had |
| 1:58.4 | made your provisions put in those bills. So while you can dismiss committee hearings, |
| 2:03.2 | I think this experience works and I have not denigrated your experience as a local official. I |
| 2:08.7 | have been one. You know, I just think you should respect our experience when you look at how you |
| 2:14.1 | evaluate someone who can get things done. Thank you, Senator. Mr. Mayor, I'll give you a chance to respond. |
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