Amy Klobuchar
Bio | Amy Klobuchar is currently serving as a Senator from Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and previously worked as the Hennepin County Attorney. |
Status and Position | Current US Senator of Minnesota |
Political Party and Jurisdiction | Democrat, Minnesota |
Elections | Election Jurisdiction | Started Campaign | Campaign Status | Poll Rankings (of the vote) |
| 2024 Senate Election Minnesota 2 | Minnesota 2 | No | N/A | N/A |
Campaign Financing | Klobuchar is not accepting money from corporate PACs. The majority of her fundraising comes from individual contributions. |
Voting Rights | Klobuchar is an advocate for voting rights protections. As a Senator, she has supported legislation to expand the Voting Rights Act. She has also sponsored legislation to ease the process of voter registration. |
Opinions on Issues
Issues | Stance | Summary |
| Universal Healthcare | Against | Says she would like a public option, but would not eliminate private insurance. While Klobuchar is critical of Medical-for-All proposals, she does believe that steps do need to be taken to expand healthcare access for Americans. In particular, she would implement an opt-in option for public healthcare and expand existing programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act. |
| Socialized Healthcare | For | Would expand the ACA. |
| Private Healthcare | For | Says would like a public option, but would not eliminate private healthcare |
| LGBT Rights | For | Is an advocate for LGBT rights. Klobuchar believes that marriage equality is an essential right, and has spend much of her time as a Senator working to expand LGBT rights. For instance, she introduced the Equality Act, legislation that aimed to criminalize discrimination based on sexual or gender orientation. |
| Taxes | For | Is supportive of several measures that would increase tax rates, particularly for wealthy Americans. Klobuchar supports a capital gains tax and would raise the corporate tax rate slightly from its current rate. |
| Flat Tax Rate | Against | Supports progressive tax rates, and would seek to implement at least a 30% income tax rate for millionaires. Klobuchar supports a capital gains tax and would raise the corporate tax rate slightly from its current rate. |
| Abortion | For | Supports abortion and other reproductive rights. Klobuchar was a sponsor of the Women’s Health Protection Act. She hopes to eventually reduce the need for abortion by increasing access to affordable contraception. |
| Gun Control | For | Supports several gun control measures. Klobuchar is particularly supportive of an assault rifle ban and universal background checks. |
| Assisted Suicide | For | Believes it should be allowed after psychological exam. Klobuchar is particularly supportive of an assault rifle ban and universal background checks. |
| Government Interference | For | Supports measures such as gun control and environmental regulations. |
| Planned Parenthood | For | Believes Planned Parenthood provides essential healthcare services for women. |
| Welfare | For | Believes in the importance of government-funded welfare programs. Specifically, Klobuchar would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit. |
| Welfare | For | Has criticized political opponents for not supporting embryonic stem cell research. |
| Death Penalty | Against | Would abolish the death penalty. Klobuchar does not believe that capital punishment contributes productively to the justice system and would seek to abolish it. |
| Mandatory Prison Sentence | Against | Supports reducing mandatory minimums. |
| Military Spending | Against | Has said she would seek to make US military spending more efficient. |
| War on Terrorism | Against | Supports withdrawing troops from Iraq. |
| Foreign Policy International Interaction | For | Would recommit to working with allies. Klobuchar has said that within her first 100 days as president, she would make an effort to visit with the US' major allies in order to repair relationships that she believes have been damages under the Trump Administration. |
| United Nations power | For | When asked if the US should remain in the UN she said, “Yes.” |
| Nationalism | Against | Has criticized Trump's nationalist tactics. |
| Free Markets | Nuance | Believes in competitive capitalism, but has expressed weariness about several free-trade agreements. Klobuchar has expressed support for free markets in multiple arenas, including the healthcare industry. However, she has occasionally expressed opposition to free trade agreements and would support breaking up big tech companies such as Facebook and Google. |
| Brexit | Unknown | Has not been vocal on the issue. |
| Affirmative Action | Unknown | Has not clearly stated her position on the topic. |
| Government Spending | For | Supports increasing government spending on social programs, but not on defense. |
| Charter Schools | Nuance | Has stated that she believes public education should be the priority of the federal government, but has not advocated to discontinue funding for charter schools. |
| Common Core | Unknown | Klobuchar has not personally made any comments on the Common Core. N/A |
| Clean Energy | For | Believes the US should increase use of sustainable energy sources. Klobuchar co-sponsored the Green New Deal, which would greatly increase US investments into clean energy. She would also rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. |
| Religious Freedom | For | Supporter of religious freedom, does not believe that religious freedom includes the right to discriminate. Supporter of religious freedom, does not believe that religious freedom includes the right to discriminate. |
| Separation of Church and State | For | Believes there should be separation between church and state. |
| Slavery Reparations | Against | Would instead invest more in communities that have historically been impacted by racism. |
| Border Control | Against | Would increase legal immigration, supports a pathway to citizenship, and would reform ICE. Klobuchar is supportive of border control and has explicitly said that she would not support abolishing ICE. |
| Passenger Profiling | Nuance | Is an advocate for racial equality, but has not been outspoken on this particular issue. However, she has been criticized for neglecting to prosecute police profiling as Hennepin County Attorney. |
| DACA | For | Would grant citizenship to DREAMers. |
| Sanctuary Cities | For | Voted to continue providing federal funds to sanctuary cities. |
| Legalizing Marijuana | Nuance | Believes marijuana legalization is a state's rights issue. |