I've always been guided by the values I was raised with in Minnesota -- and that's why working to make life better for the American people is so important to me.
From allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices to reducing the price of insulin for millions of seniors, I've worked hard to lower costs. But we still have more work to do.
I am the daughter of a newspaperman and a teacher and the granddaughter of an iron ore miner who saved his money in a coffee can in the basement to send my dad to college.
No one expected me to run for elected office -- and not many people expected me to win either. But thanks to supporters like you I was elected to the U.S. Senate.