Al Franken actually said...

"They cost the United States billions of dollars in damages each year, some research suggests over $120 billion."

"You are spending so much of the budget fighting the fires that you have less budget to maybe do that kind of management."

"What we're saying is invasive species is a very similar process, and clearly in Senator Barrasso's bill this is outlined with categorical exclusions."

"I think that we can ask the Administration, either the current President or the next president, to convene a high level kind of a matching party, if you will, with Native American leaders and business..."