Al Franken

I think we can all agree that energy is one of the primary ingredients of infrastructure.

The fact of the matter is you are saying that if we go more to a French system or a Swiss system, that we will have increased bankruptcies, but the fact is they do not have bankruptcies and we do for medical care.

I believe that women's health is fundamental to our country's health because women are the small business owners and entrepreneurs, they are the educators, doctors, and CEOs.

It is also unbelievable to me that, in this day and age, we allow insurance companies to charge women more for health insurance simply because of the fact that they may become pregnant.

This is simply immoral and unacceptable.

health insurance companies actually punish these women. This is simply amoral and unacceptable.

health insurance companies discriminate against women solely on the basis of their gender.

It is of utmost importance that national health reform legislation makes a real difference in the lives of American women, across their lifespan.

The average individual Maine health insurance consumer is paying four times as much today for health care as they did 10 years ago.

I am a cosponsor of this bill, and I believe that Senator Leahy's legislation in health care companies' exemption from antitrust laws is a crucial first step to anticompetitive behavior.

In numerous States, nearly 90 percent of the health insurance markets are dominated by a single carrier.

And I just do not want to lower our standards, and any insurance company that operates--that wants to operate in Minnesota can just simply meet our standards.

I am deeply concerned that without additional checks and balances, this expansion will be a windfall for insurance companies.

If you have got that kind of market share.

I personally hear this a lot about, oh, well, you should be able to buy insurance products from--you know, we should deregulate it so you could buy insurance products from all over the place.

I am not aware of any industry that is entitled to any guaranteed margin of profit. Are you?

Yeah, and you told me that----

I believe that any victim ought to have a full panoply of legal remedies available to him or her.

I agree that mafia consiglieri schools should not get funding.

Is the burden on the plaintiff in that case to show that the preponderance of the cause of being fired was a discriminatory motive?

This is the result of your binding, mandatory arbitration, Mr. de Bernardo.

I think what they're doing is critically important. When Justice Sotomayor was in her hearings, I raised this issue as a constitutional issue of making sure that the--that information flows freely on the Internet.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Thank you, and welcome to your family again.

That seems to be more beneficial to the employee; doesn't it?