Al Franken: “may I ask the Chair for permission to speak for a minute. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the Senator will…”

I don`t want my grandchildren, children saying to be Grandpa, you are in the Senate, why didn`t you do anything in 50 years, I want to say why didn`t you do anything about climate.

And that is an existential threat to our democracy.

If you think about what the Republican House has done, they've got -- they took 15 ballots to elect the speaker, then they got rid of that speaker when he voted for cr.

I think this is incredibly dumb. And I do think that --