us-capitol-by-wikimediaSen. Amy Klobuchar is keeping busy. After her successful stand-up routine at the National Press Club, she was part of the National Prayer Breakfast with President Obama on Thursday. She’s also been making the rounds promoting Obama’s plan to cap executive salaries for those companies that took bailout money “These Wall Street executives clearly didn’t get the memo: Party time is over,” she said.

Klobuchar, DFL-Minn., also had strong words for food safety officials after salmonella-tainted peanut butter may have cost three Minnesotans their lives. MinnPost has the transcript.

Rep. Keith Ellison, DFL-Minn., helped lead a successful push to add more mass transit money, $3 billion, to the stimulus bill this week. He was also in Chicagoland to speak about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights and Obama’s election. “It would have been impossible to imagine from the standpoint of someone in 1959 that we would have a president of African descent in 50 years,” he told students at Lake Forest College. Ellison was also a featured speaker at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference in Washington, D.C.

Bluestem Prairie reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has very little campaign money left (less than $2,000) and that all her big donors were from outside of Minnesota.

The contentious State Children’s Health Insurance Program passed the House this week, with Rep. Erik Paulsen breaking ranks with the Republicans and voting for the measure. The only Minnesota representatives to vote against the final version of SCHIP were Bachmann and Republican John Kline.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put DFL Rep. Collin Peterson in charge of fixing the default credit swap mess that, in part, brought about the current economic crisis.