Al Franken actually said...

"I don't want Pell grants being used in a way that is just going to waste."

"I think that's why these hearings are important."

"As Members of Congress, what can we do to encourage a marketplace where the competition among schools is based on the quality of the education, not the quality of marketing?"

"What we're trying to do here--and I would appreciate it if the other members would stay instead of making a comment, quoting a paid lobbyist, and then--with great umbrage, and then leaving."