Al Franken actually said...

"I think it is harmful to enforcement of civil rights claims, as almost anything else is, the mandatory arbitration."

"Would those be greater than the number of cases under which the opposite is true?"

"I think it should be pretty easy to establish whose testimony is more persuasive, shall we say?"

"Last year, I passed an amendment to the Defense appropriations bill that prohibits taxpayer money from going to contractors who force their employees to arbitrate discrimination claims."