Al Franken: “I want to thank the Ranking Member and Senator Cornyn and the Chairman for being here today.”

You`re right, we started getting these tea party types, including Rand, and it was -- it was very upsetting, of course. Now, they did very quickly shift to opposing the Affordable Care Act and, of course, when they finally saw what the…

I think Mitch was afraid they would be forced into doing that. They feel forced to do it. This though gives us time to pass build back better.

We have to pass this bill and you can carve out and say for, you know, elections, this is our democracy.

Now, Trump keeps saying that he quote, got more votes by far than any sitting president in the history of our country. I know that sounds good. But it doesn`t mean much when you lose by 7,052,770 vote.