“Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.”

American politician and lawyer

Amy Klobuchar is an American politician and lawyer. She has served as the senior United States senator from Minnesota since 2007, and is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the state's affiliate of the Democratic Party. Before entering the Senate, she was county attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota, from 1999 to 2007. She is also the Democratic nominee in the 2026 Minnesota gubernatorial election.