Al Franken: “the capital improvement and maintenance spending at the Forest Service--the President's budget cuts it by 73 percent.”

I think that`s kind of exactly the right idea. I think that we should put -- the elements of the bill are extremely popular. And what we should do is just put them out one by one, and have, you know, have Americans see for themselves what…

We have to pass this bill and you can carve out and say for, you know, elections, this is our democracy.

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…

This is an existential threat to our democracy. If we lose our democracy, it`s - we lose everything.