Al Franken: “I ask unanimous consent to speak for 6 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.…”

The Republican Party has become something almost unrecognizable. When I started there, it was tough then but it just got worse and worse and worse and worse.

The only thing worse than prosecuting him is not prosecuting him.

You`re right, we started getting these tea party types, including Rand, and it was -- it was very upsetting, of course. Now, they did very quickly shift to opposing the Affordable Care Act and, of course, when they finally saw what the…

I don`t want my grandchildren, children saying to be Grandpa, you are in the Senate, why didn`t you do anything in 50 years, I want to say why didn`t you do anything about climate.