Al Franken: “as if in executive session, I ask unanimous consent that the action of reporting the nomination of Erica Lynn Groshen be…”

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.

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…

And that is an existential threat to our democracy.

It is, I still believe it will happen. Because it kind of has to, and I wish they would get on with it.