Al Franken actually said...

"experts agree that rising health care costs in our country are unsustainable for the Federal Government, for States, and for consumers."

"We said that the rate of growth of premiums would go down."

"I'm extremely concerned that these waivers are being granted without sufficient evidence that these States would truly see a disruption of their insurance market without such a waiver."

"I plan to work on the three policy issues that I touched on in my questions, communication between the FDA and the industry, unnecessarily restrictive conflict of interest rules, and the profit cap on..."