United States Senator (Democratic) from Minnesota.
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At a September 29 Senate hearing, Sen. Eric Schmitt asked Jack Smith whether he attended a February 2024 Atlanta Hawks game, in questions about Fani Willis. Smith said no and recalled a Maryland-Iowa game; Klobuchar said Schmitt had the teams wrong.
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Michigan gubernatorial candidate John James said FBI Director Kash Patel privately told him the FBI would have a presence in Michigan before Election Day. Questioned at a Senate hearing, Patel neither confirmed nor denied it.
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An issue tracker recording where members of Congress and 2026 midterm candidates stand on the unauthorized Iran war, based on their votes on war-powers resolutions, campaign statements, and public remarks.
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says ICE would go to polling places only for a threat or a warrant, and DHS says ICE is not planning operations targeting them but arrests could follow a threat. Three lawsuits allege that position violates federal law.
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Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez fatally shot ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. DHS said he was armed and violently resisted; bystander video shows agents had already disarmed him before firing.
Role at the time: U.S. Senator, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee
Response to this claim
Sen. Eric Schmitt implied that Jack Smith attended a Golden State Warriors versus Atlanta Hawks NBA game in Atlanta on February 3, 2024, asking Smith whether he had gone to the game and displaying a poster of text messages he described as coming from Smith's team.
“And I would just say, for a U.S. senator to have false information and imply based on a confusion about the name of a team, which I knew, knowing my Midwestern sports, and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag is something that deserves an apology”
Klobuchar explicitly criticizes Schmitt's conduct in making the accusation, calling for an apology rather than simply noting the factual error.
Role at the time: U.S. Senator, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee
Response to this claim
Sen. Eric Schmitt implied that Jack Smith attended a Golden State Warriors versus Atlanta Hawks NBA game in Atlanta on February 3, 2024, asking Smith whether he had gone to the game and displaying a poster of text messages he described as coming from Smith's team.
“I think that people should have their facts straight before they accuse someone of being a dirtbag and not get the teams wrong.”
Klobuchar disputes the accuracy of Schmitt's claim in real time by saying he got the teams wrong, which challenges how Schmitt described the game.
Role at the time: U.S. Senator, Minnesota
Statement summary
Amy Klobuchar voted yea on H.Con.Res. 89, a vote to direct the removal of U.S. forces from unauthorized hostilities with Iran.
“On the Concurrent Resolution H.Con.Res. 89: A concurrent resolution directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.”
Voted to direct the removal of U.S. forces from unauthorized hostilities with Iran, a vote to end U.S. involvement absent congressional authorization.
Role at the time: United States senator for Minnesota, questioning the witness
Statement summary
Klobuchar put it to Patel that Justice Department guidance bars FBI agents from conducting investigations inside polling places and gives federal prosecutors no authority to send agents or marshals there, and asked him to commit to following that law and policy. Patel said he was aware of the guidance and that the FBI would always follow the law and the guidelines.
“Are you aware of the Justice Department’s longstanding guidance that states that FBI agents cannot conduct investigations inside polling places on election day and that federal prosecutors have no authority to send FBI special agents or deploy US marshals to polling places?” … “And so will you commit to following clear federal law and DOJ policy and not deploy federal agents to polling places?”
Relative to the FBI having a presence at polling places, Klobuchar asserts as a proposition that existing law and Justice Department guidance forbid it, then asks the director to commit to that limit. An assertion that the conduct under scrutiny would be unlawful is a substantive criticism of it, which is why this is a condemnation rather than a challenge to the characterisation: she is not disputing how the plan has been described, she is saying it may not lawfully happen.
Role at the time: U.S. Senator, Minnesota
Statement summary
Amy Klobuchar voted Yea on H.Con.Res. 86, the Senate resolution directing the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
“On the Concurrent Resolution H.Con.Res. 86: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.”
A yea vote supported directing the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran, opposing continued U.S. involvement in the war without congressional authorization.
Role at the time: U.S. senator from Minnesota and co-sponsor of the Protect Our Polls Act
Statement summary
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), a co-sponsor of the Protect Our Polls Act, said there are concerns that federal officers could be deployed to polling locations to intimidate voters, and that the bill reiterates that such attempts at voter intimidation are unlawful.
“Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy and the freedom to vote is fundamental Yet we continue to see unprecedented attacks on our democracy and on voting rights, as well as concerns that federal officers could be deployed to polling locations to intimidate voters. This legislation reiterates that those attempts at voter intimidation are unlawful and protects Americans’ constitutional right to vote.”
The reference point is the administration's stated or threatened use of ICE and other armed federal agents at or near polling places in the 2026 election. Klobuchar said there are concerns that federal officers could be deployed to polling locations to intimidate voters, and that the Protect Our Polls Act reiterates that such attempts at voter intimidation are unlawful. That rejects deploying federal officers to polling places for that purpose, so we labeled it Condemned rather than Mixed or conditional.
Role at the time: United States senator for Minnesota
Statement summary
Senator Amy Klobuchar said Pretti and Renee Good should still be alive and attributed their deaths to federal agents' actions.
“They should be alive today.”
Klobuchar describes Pretti as an innocent citizen whose death resulted from federal agents' conduct. That directly condemns the shooting as unjustified.
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