Al Franken actually said...

"It makes sense that the government says how many numbers have been collected and how many have been queried."

"The bill's resiliency as well. These things operate in island mode or can operate in island mode and that can, especially if you're doing things like storing important data. It's a security piece too."

"Transparency is one of the foundations of democratic governance."

"Is that important, Mr. Nadel, that the idea of establishing data that is that people can count on and say we know that this is what this technology does or we know this is what our savings will be?"