Al Franken actually said...

I think it's needed research to make sure that this, the fracking, is done in an environmentally friendly way.

I think that it's something. It just seems to me that these industries, this industry, that's going to benefit from the study of how to do f...

Here is a very, very, very profitable industry and yet this $45 million program is being footed by the taxpayers.

So, we want to be competitive in these technologies, which are clearly going to be an enormous part of our economy, and of the world economy...