Al Franken actually said...

"S. 1206, introduced by Senator Franken, will encourage and help states to do benchmarking and disclosure."

"We do believe that if done right, flexible and, you know, including a lot of efficiencies, can be done in ways that will actually help the economy rather than hurt the economy."

"We're going to have to go back to that."

"It makes sense that the government says how many numbers have been collected and how many have been queried."