Al Franken actually said...

"This bill is urgently necessary. Americans understand that we need to give due weight to privacy, on the one hand, and national security, on the other."

"If those had been required earlier, we would have found out 3 years earlier that Americans were unconstitutionally being surveilled and presumably would have put a stop to it."

"I want to thank you, Chairman Coons, for holding this hearing."

"I think that the need for [Federal Arbitration Act reform] has become clearer since the Italian Colors decision last term."