ms. klobuchar: of course. mr. inhofe: how many people were killed? 18? ms. klobuchar: 13 people were killed that day. mr. inhofe: are you aware that in my state of oklahoma, this is when we are in the process of the last long-term bill in 2005 that a mother and three children were driving below a bridge in oklahoma city, concrete dropped off, it killed the mother. now we corrected that in the 2005 bill. but the question i'd ask you is why do we wait until people die before this happens? we right now -- and i've got a list and after a little while today i'm going to repeat it for the third time about the bridges in this country that we can avoid that happening. and if we don't do something -- and you're not going to do it, you can't do any of the large projects on short-term extensions. so i guess my l only question is why do we wait until death is at our door? ms. klobuchar: i appreciate that question from the senator from oklahoma and thank you for your work on this bill and chairmanship on this committee and your willingness to work across the aisle on this

ms. klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: mr. president i rise today to talk about the important bill before us today the every child achieves act which reauthorized the elementary and secondary education act and fixes no child left behind. i also rise today to talk about the reauthorization of the export-import bank, which is also a very important matter for our country. i want to thank senators alexander and murray for their great leadership in crafting a bipartisan bill that makes critical updates to no child left behind which will help ensure that all students receive a quality education. this very important and they have worked together from the very beginning on the bill, and i think the results show how important it is. i want to talk today about three amendments in this bill, one of them that i have with the presiding officer about stem education. i think we all know that in today's global economy education is key to our economic prosperity. certainly the senator from north dakota understands that because our two states,

ms. saldana: essential. sen. klobuchar: i'm talking about from a public safety perspective. ms. saldana: yes. it is like one of these very wide victims indicated this morning where you hear something simply stated, you wonder why do we get bogged down? that was political interest. we have to work on a better immigration system, comprehensively. mr. rodriguez: one of the issues that we have heard about this morning is the notion that individuals who are here illegally -- we don't know who they are. they are not registered, they are off the grid essentially. both what the deferred action programs and more healthily comprehensive immigration reforms provide is a way to know who those people are. hold them accountable to hol d them where they do commit crimes. that is one example of many where public safety would be promoted by immigration reform. sen. klobuchar: the last thing i want to bring up is this different issue -- i don't want to ramble into it -- the visa program for victims of broader -- of crime. i know i had many experiences where people would be preyed upon because the