Al Franken: “I thank the Chair and I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nebraska.”

The Republican Party has become something almost unrecognizable. When I started there, it was tough then but it just got worse and worse and worse and worse.

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

I think what McConnell was worried about is that this is a game of chicken and McConnell blinked because Democrats could have just changed the rules.

Yes, it`s kind of crazy. During the last hearing, they had vice president, former Vice President Gore, and he did very quickly, he said, well, if you`re choosing between your own ambition and the Constitution and democracy, it`s not really…