Al Franken: “In these difficult budgetary times it's important to be extra careful with taxpayer's funds.”

And that is an existential threat to our democracy.

Democrats should stop complaining and get to work. That`s how you win elections. You know, stop working against ourselves, and instead, get out the vote.

This is an existential threat to our democracy. If we lose our democracy, it`s - we lose everything.

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.