WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) joined a bipartisan group of colleagues in pushing Senate Appropriations Committee leaders to increase National Guard funding for wildland firefighting efforts in fifteen states, including Minnesota. "Year after year wildfires ravage local communities, businesses, homes and infrastructure in dry and western states," the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Senate Appropriation  more