Al Franken actually said...

"I just find that irritating, that they throw up that stuff all the time."

"I think that's why these hearings are important."

"As Members of Congress, what can we do to encourage a marketplace where the competition among schools is based on the quality of the education, not the quality of marketing?"

"What we're trying to do here--and I would appreciate it if the other members would stay instead of making a comment, quoting a paid lobbyist, and then--with great umbrage, and then leaving."