“ KLOBUCHAR: Somehow I got placed on the oceans subcommittee. I didn’t ask for that. But when I got there the first day I realized all the other senators had an ocean. Olympia Snowe was on there, John Kerry was on there. And I wrote a note to Frank Lautenberg and I said, “I am the only senator on the oceans subcommittee without an ocean.” And he wrote back, “Just come back next year and ask for one.
— Washington Post interview w/Amy Klobuchar