Al Franken actually said...

"the cause of these brownouts and the extra charges to the State of California was not caused by regulation, but was caused by companies like Enron ripping Granny off?"

"Congress' job of triage in this case, as Senator Franken noted, is to eliminate the glaring problems first."

"The legislation that you have introduced and Senator Hatch has introduced on school leadership I think is an exemplar of what can be done in school leadership."

"McNamara's fallacy is that things that can be easily measured will be measured and will be considered important."