Al Franken actually said...

one of my big concerns with this deal is the joint venture that your companies have agreed to create.

We would rather the FCC reject these deals in favor of more competition in the wireless marketplace.

But the bottom line is before we entered into this transaction with Verizon Wireless, we talked to virtually everyone in this space.

we have less than five percent of the world's population, but we have nearly a quarter of its prisoners.