Al Franken actually said...

I think it is harmful to enforcement of civil rights claims, as almost anything else is, the mandatory arbitration.

I hope very much that he was not saying that Gross advantaged plaintiffs, because that is certainly not the case.

S. 1756 would replace the Gross standard with a uniform standard that furthers Congress' interest in preventing and deterring workplace bias...

It just seems like to me that there is a higher wall to climb.