I hope that my future grandkids will only read about when it was legal to fire someone because they're gay or transgender.

It seems like not having ENDA means that people aren't able to bring their full selves to work.

Today we have a chance to extend the same commonsense protections to every American and to every American worker by passing ENDA.

I've seen a change in attitude--for example, in our military.

We've got 29 States in which you can be fired for, not just being gay or transgender, but for them suspecting that you are.

In a way, what we're doing, by not letting people be themselves in the workplace, is suppressing productivity.

It's perfectly legal to fire somebody because they're gay or because they're suspected to be gay.

I remember, until 1967, it was illegal in a number of States in this country for interracial couples to get married.

In 30 years, this isn't going to be an issue.

I respectfully cannot agree that a mandate with no penalty in the first year and a maximum penalty of $750 is 'strong.'

I have four words for Senator Al Franken and that is, Joe Mauer for Governor.

And it seems to me that if--ok, so, that's valuable. That's really valuable.

But to put in your testimony that it's noncontroversial agreement is not accurate.

But if you have a pre-existing condition-- one of the things that this health care reform would do, is say that an insurance company can't charge you more because you have pre-existing conditions.

I believe it is non-controversial that the combination of guaranteed issue and community rating would raise average premiums.

I think there are tremendous benefits to health care reform that weren't mentioned when you were talking about what you kind of call the meager benefits.

I don't think that it's wrong to try to do both things at the same time which is make sure that people get covered.

I think it's actually on the face, evident, that there is controversy, isn't there?