Al Franken: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing.”

I just say I totally agree with that. And I also think the January 6 Committee is speaking to this issue of democracy.

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…

I think Mitch was afraid they would be forced into doing that. They feel forced to do it. This though gives us time to pass build back better.

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…