Al Franken actually said...

"So that when my colleagues on the other side, who aren't here, when they sing the praises of fracturing and then demonize government involvement in picking winners and losers, it seems like they don't..."

"We seem to have a debate here in this Senate over the very nature of the role of government in development of new technologies."

"The internet, for goodness sakes. DARPA created the internet."

"We established in an energy efficiency resource standard."