Al Franken actually said...

I take some umbrage about some of the things that were said after I got here.

If that is the choice we have to make, and the middle class and working class of this country has to make, in order to get more jobs you hav...

That is because we were being plunged into debt. That is what was causing the deficit and that is why Ronald Reagan raised taxes twice.

I really resent that implication, I really do. The union members in my State that I work with are among the finest people I know.