Al Franken actually said...

"I would like to work with you on this and explicit protections for folks on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender for kids who are--it is a very real thing that there is this bullying in school."

"I think that, along with these rate reviews that Senator Feinstein is proposing, minimum loss ratio is an important element in holding health insurance companies accountable."

"the Federal Government does something, it's bad, and it's good if private innovation does it."

"Congress' job of triage in this case, as Senator Franken noted, is to eliminate the glaring problems first."