Al Franken actually said...

"So that when my colleagues on the other side, who aren't here, when they sing the praises of fracturing and then demonize government involvement in picking winners and losers, it seems like they don't..."

"Civilian nuclear reactors wouldn't have happened without the government."

"Solyndra was actually undercut by the fact that the Chinese spent so much in promoting their own solar industry."

"There's going to be an enormous world market and if we don't do this now we're not going to be part of it."