Al Franken: “Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, for holding this hearing.”

I think this is incredibly dumb. And I do think that --

What is great about this is that it gives us the time to get Sinema and to get Manchin and to get all 51 with the vice president on board on a package and if we tell the American people and keep telling the American people what’s in it.

He’s going to send it out. He’s, as he said, you know, before the commercial, he said he’s destroyed the Senate. He did that by -- he did more filibusters of executive nominees during Obama than been done in the previous history of the…

I think this autocracy issue will be an enormous issue for Americans.