Al Franken: “I think that there are many far better alternatives than incarceration for those who should not be incarcerated.”

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.

I think this is incredibly dumb. And I do think that --

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.

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