Amy Klobuchar
American lawyer and politician
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| 2024 | Appointed Chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies for the 2024 presidential inauguration. |
| 2024 | Klobuchar received the Distinguished Public Service Award from The American Legion. |
| 2024 | Klobuchar was reelected to a fourth term in the Senate, defeating Republican nominee Royce White. |
| August 13 2024 | Klobuchar won the primary election on August 13. |
| July 2024 | Klobuchar announced in July that she was still cancer-free after undergoing a small surgery and brief radiation treatment. |
| May 2024 | In May, Klobuchar won the DFL endorsement to be the Democratic nominee for the Senate race. |
| 2023 | Became Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry during the 119th Congress. |
| 2023 | In 2023, the Lugar Center ranked Amy Klobuchar in the top fifth of senators for bipartisanship. |
| 2023 | Klobuchar released her book The Joy of Politics. |
| 2021 | Klobuchar was awarded the Award for Distinguished Public Service from the Association of American Publishers. |
| 2021 | She published Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age, a comprehensive historical overview of antitrust law in the U.S. addressing modern regulatory issues. |
| 2021 | She became the chair of the Senate Rules Committee. |
| August 2021 | Doctors determined in August that Klobuchar's treatments were successful and she was cancer-free. |
| May 2021 | Klobuchar completed a course of radiation treatment in May after undergoing a successful lumpectomy. |
| April 20 2021 | Amy Klobuchar authored an article for The New York Times titled 'I Learned 2 Things From My First Job With Walter Mondale'. |
| February 2021 | In February, Klobuchar was diagnosed with Stage 1A breast cancer. |
| January 20 2021 | Klobuchar was the first speaker at Joe Biden's inauguration. |
| January 6 2021 | Klobuchar was present at the U.S. Capitol during the storming by Trump supporters and co-led Senate deliberations during the 2021 Electoral College vote count. |
| 2020 | Klobuchar launched her presidential campaign, announcing support for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision, restoring the Voting Rights Act, and implementing automatic voter registration for 18-year-old U.S. citizens. |
| 2020 | Klobuchar was speculated to be a potential candidate for secretary of agriculture or U.S. attorney general in the Biden administration. |
| December 2020 | Myon Burrell's sentence was commuted by the Minnesota Board of Pardons due to flaws uncovered in the case against him. |
| June 18 2020 | Klobuchar withdrew herself from consideration for vice-presidential running mate, stating that Biden should choose a woman of color. |
| May 21 2020 | It was reported that Joe Biden asked several women, including Klobuchar, for formal vetting to be his vice-presidential running mate. |
| March 2020 | Amy Klobuchar withdrew from the Democratic nomination for President of the United States and subsequently endorsed Joe Biden. |
| February 2020 | Klobuchar led the midnight vote in the three small townships of Dixville Notch, Millsfield, and Hart's Location during the New Hampshire Primary, achieving a surprising third-place finish and receiving six pledged delegates. |
| February 7 2020 | Amy Klobuchar experienced a significant campaign surge after the Democratic Party presidential debate, with her campaign receiving $3 million in donations in the 48 hours following the debate and rising to third place in polls. |
| January 2020 | Klobuchar opened a Nevada field office during the first weekend of January, having staff working in the state since November. |
| January 2020 | The New York Times editorial board endorsed Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren for president. |
| January 2020 | During Klobuchar's presidential campaign, the Associated Press highlighted flaws in the case against Myon Burrell, quoting a co-defendant who claimed he had fired the shot that killed Tyesha Edwards. |
| 2019 | Amy Klobuchar, along with eight other Democratic senators, signed a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai expressing concerns about the proposed changes to children's programming rules announced by the Federal Communications Commission. The letter warned that these changes would limit educational content available to children, particularly impacting low-income and minority communities. |
| 2019 | Amy Klobuchar, along with 34 other senators, introduced the Child Care for Working Families Act, which aimed to create 770,000 new child care jobs and made provisions for affordable child care for families under 75 percent of the state median income. |
| 2019 | Amy Klobuchar sponsored the Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act, a bill aimed at reversing a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that increased the tax burden on survivor benefits for Gold Star families. The bill passed in the Senate in May 2019. |
| October 24 2019 | Klobuchar's campaign passed the 165,000 individual donor threshold and 3% polling threshold to participate in the November Democratic presidential debates. |
| August 2019 | Following the El Paso shooting, Amy Klobuchar published an anti-hate crime proposal aimed at directing federal law enforcement against white supremacists and expanding protections for targeted communities. |
| August 2019 | Klobuchar was one of nineteen senators to sign a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and HHS Secretary Alex Azar, requesting data on the potential consequences of the Texas v. United States ACA lawsuit. |
| August 7 2019 | Amy Klobuchar released a comprehensive rural job growth plan, proposing federal subsidies for crop insurance, disaster aid, resource conservation, and broadband Internet access, along with expanded anti-poverty programs for rural Americans. |
| August 2 2019 | Klobuchar's campaign qualified for the September Democratic presidential debates by achieving 2% polling threshold and gaining 130,000 unique donors. |
| July 2019 | The Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act, introduced by Klobuchar, unanimously passed the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, enabling better support for veterans transitioning to civilian life. |
| July 2019 | In July 2019, Amy Klobuchar was one of eight senators to cosponsor the Fallen Journalists Memorial Act, a bill aimed at creating a privately funded memorial on federal lands in Washington, D.C. to honor journalists, photographers, and broadcasters who have died while serving their profession. |
| July 2019 | Klobuchar was one of twenty-two senators signing a letter led by Tammy Duckworth advocating against the termination of deportation protections for the families of active-duty service members. |
| July 2019 | Klobuchar, along with Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand, sent a letter to the Office of Refugee Resettlement advocating for the prioritization of child reunification over prolonged custody. |
| July 2019 | Klobuchar, along with fifteen other Senate Democrats, introduced the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act to impose restrictions on ICE enforcement actions at sensitive locations. |
| July 2019 | Klobuchar and Senator Jack Reed sent a letter to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, asking for explanations regarding the voting equipment issues in Durham County, North Carolina during the 2016 election. |
| July 2019 | In July 2019, Klobuchar addressed the National Education Association, outlining her plan to increase teacher pay funded by changes to the estate tax, emphasizing the importance of investing in schools to remain competitive globally. |
| July 2019 | Amy Klobuchar signed a letter to United States Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta advocating for a full investigation by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration into a complaint from Chicago-area McDonald's employees regarding workplace violence incidents. |
| July 2019 | In response to a question about supporting temporary workers during a meeting with the Teamsters 238 union, Klobuchar emphasized the need to make it easier for people to organize and criticized the current president for not fulfilling promises to workers. |
| July 31 2019 | At the Detroit Democratic debate, Klobuchar invoked the death of 6-year-old Stephen Romero from the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, asserting that she would secure the passage of universal background checks as president. |
| July 31 2019 | Following Attorney General William Barr's announcement of the resumption of the death penalty, Amy Klobuchar was a cosponsor of a bill that aimed to ban the death penalty. |
| July 12 2019 | Klobuchar announced a healthcare proposal focused on improving senior healthcare, which included plans for research into chronic diseases like Alzheimer's, expansion of retirement savings, investments in long-term care, and establishing a new senior fraud prevention office. The proposal suggested funding the initiatives by closing tax loopholes for inherited wealth. |
| June 2019 | Amy Klobuchar, along with Republican Lisa Murkowski, introduced the Protecting Personal Health Data Act, which required the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to create regulations for health data tracking apps, wearable devices, and genetic testing kits. |
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