Do Tell: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Funny Senator
from Washington Post blog
In this week's installment of "Do Tell," we chat with first-term Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), whose class peers have deemed her funniest freshman.
Klobuchar discusses the challenges of being a new kid on the block - from her most embarrassing etiquette faux pas and the thrill of gaveling Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) to order to her husband's tireless work in the Senate Spouses organization. (Watch the video below to see what Klobuchar's husband, John Bessler, did to make another senator call him sexy.)
The Minnesota senator, a rising star of her party who has become a leading proponent of efforts to combat climate change, also divulges her rare case of compassion for journalists, having grown up the daughter of a newspaper columnist in Minneapolis. (Her father, Jim Klobuchar, who is now retired, wrote for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.)
She, her husband and their 11-year-old daughter drove to Washington in their Saturn to live in a roughly 1,000-square-foot apartment and lead very different lifestyles for all of them, perhaps especially for her husband, who is a lawyer.
KLOBUCHAR: My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.
SLEUTH: So while you're working on immigration and global warming, he's having lunch with the First Lady?
(Continued here.)
In this week's installment of "Do Tell," we chat with first-term Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), whose class peers have deemed her funniest freshman.
Klobuchar discusses the challenges of being a new kid on the block - from her most embarrassing etiquette faux pas and the thrill of gaveling Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) to order to her husband's tireless work in the Senate Spouses organization. (Watch the video below to see what Klobuchar's husband, John Bessler, did to make another senator call him sexy.)
The Minnesota senator, a rising star of her party who has become a leading proponent of efforts to combat climate change, also divulges her rare case of compassion for journalists, having grown up the daughter of a newspaper columnist in Minneapolis. (Her father, Jim Klobuchar, who is now retired, wrote for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.)
She, her husband and their 11-year-old daughter drove to Washington in their Saturn to live in a roughly 1,000-square-foot apartment and lead very different lifestyles for all of them, perhaps especially for her husband, who is a lawyer.
KLOBUCHAR: My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.
SLEUTH: So while you're working on immigration and global warming, he's having lunch with the First Lady?
(Continued here.)
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