Al Franken actually said...

"But I want to thank you all for the great work that you're doing."

"Thank you, Senator, for your great work in Shaheen/Portman."

"You can voluntary standards or mandatory standards, but in, I think, that in many cases we're talking about a distinction without a difference that a standard is a mandate."

"I would like to, one of the ways I would try to make this program work"