Al Franken actually said...

there is an actual cost to these taxpayer. Taxpayer money is at risk because of global climate change.

Franken links climate change to financial risks for taxpayers.

03/12/2012

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What we're basically doing is fighting for the future.

So that when my colleagues on the other side, who aren't here, when they sing the praises of fracturing and then demonize government involve...

We seem to have a debate here in this Senate over the very nature of the role of government in development of new technologies.

The internet, for goodness sakes. DARPA created the internet.