Amy Klobuchar

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar is making her way through northwestern Minnesota, dishing out advice to graduates and getting input from area residents who have battled annual floods.

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Two Minnesota Republicans who ran on the party's statewide ticket last fall are weighing whether to jump into a 2012 Senate campaign that so far lacks any declared GOP candidates.

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A decades-old debate over a new St. Croix River bridge is drawing U.S. Sen. Al Franken to Stillwater. The Democrat from Minnesota visits the city on Saturday to meet with local officials and tour the 80-year-old lift bridge. Franken hasn't taken a position on a long-delayed proposal.

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U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she'll introduce legislation Monday requiring the military to permanently preserve records on sexual assault cases. The Minnesota Democrat says people in the military reported more than 3,000 sexual assaults in 2009.

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U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is proposing legislation that would ban a synthetic drug that killed one Minnesotan last week and sent 10 others to the hospital. Klobuchar says Monday that the drug called 2C-E should be illegal. Klobuchar already co-sponsored legislation that would permanently ban chemicals found in synthetic marijuana and other drugs. She says she'll work to include a ban on 2C-E in the existing bill.

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U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar will be in St. Cloud tomorrow (Friday). She will visit the St. Cloud VA Health Care System at 9:30 a.m.

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Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she hopes for a "grace period" before the 2012 campaign begins, with no declared opponents and $1.6 million in the bank. GOP Chairman Tony Sutton says he expects the field to firm up in two to three months.

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Republican Norm Coleman won't seek a return to the Senate in 2012 in a Minnesota race that would have pitted him against Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

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There's nothing better than a Minnesota potluck on a cold winter's day. And so it was in our nation's capitol as Minnesota's Congressional delegation took off the gloves -- and replaced them with oven mitts -- in a contest worthy of their Minnesota heritage.

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Some Minnesota Democrats are saying they won't let the shooting of a congresswoman in Arizona keep them from their constituents, but it might discourage those voters from coming to town halls.

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