Al Franken actually said...

"What we're basically doing is fighting for the future."

"We seem to have a debate here in this Senate over the very nature of the role of government in development of new technologies."

"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."