Klobuchar backs ethics reform in her first press conference

Updated: January 8, 2007 - 1:26 PM

Speaking at her first press conference since she was sworn into the Senate, Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said she stands behind stronger ethics reform in Congress.

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Speaking at her first press conference since she was sworn into the Senate, Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said she stands behind stronger ethics reform in Congress.

Standing beside Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sens. Russ Feingold and Barack Obama and the rest of the freshman class, she supported restrictions on gifts, travel and meals, limits on earmark spending and stronger investigation and enforcement of violations.

Ethics reform is the No. 1 priority of this new Senate for a key reason: until we improve the way Congress does business, and until we make things fair again for all Americans, we cant effectively tackle the big issues facing our country, like energy independence, affordable health care, or relief for the middle class, she said.

Reid, who cited ethics reforms as his first priority, promised the most sweeping reforms since Watergate.

--Brady Averill