Al Franken

For me, diabetes was the topic of the second Floor speech I gave when I became a U.S. Senator.

I rise today to talk about the effort by my Republican colleagues to gut critical consumer privacy protections. Last week, the Senate voted 50 to 48 to allow internet service providers such as Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T to freely collect…

Your company is on track to reduce greenhouse emissions to 30 percent of 2005 levels by 2020.

I want to commend Xcel for being a leader in generating clean energy and reducing carbon emissions.

Earlier this month, President Trump released his budget blueprint which calls for an overall cut of $1.7 billion to the Energy Department.

I want to thank you for Xcel's leadership, for your personal leadership, and for showing how we can transition to clean sources of electricity while keeping rates low.

These cuts would threaten the expertise found at our national labs, a resource that is the envy of the world.

I rise today to talk about President Trump's selection of David Friedman to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Our relationship with Israel is of tremendous importance. We are strong allies, and we have a strong military, diplomatic…

I rise today in opposition to a resolution that will roll back nearly 45 years of OSHA workplace safety enforcement precedents. We would be reversing a precedent that helps ensure every American worker heads homes safely at the end of…

We should raise the funds needed to support these workers by closing the carried interest loophole that benefits Wall Street and private equity managers.

If you're confirmed, you'll be the leading Federal official charged with protecting the pensions of more than 10 million Americans.

During his campaign, President Trump said that he would help working Americans.

The answer is yes, reduction in NIH funding would have a reduction in innovation.

It is absurd to say this company is in its rights to fire him because he made the choice of possibly dying from freezing to death or causing other people to die possibly by driving an unsafe vehicle. That's absurd.

The Justices who sit on the Supreme Court wield enormous power over our daily lives.

These restrictions accomplished exactly what they were designed to do when they kept African-Americans from voting.

We must determine whether your understanding of our founding document is one that will make real its promise of justice and equality to all Americans.

As Senator Whitehouse has demonstrated, what we are worried about is another 5-4 Roberts Court making one decision after another that hurts workers, employees, that hurts consumers.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is no adequate substitute for the strong protections that had long been provided by the Section 5 preclearance provision

No African-American member of the State Senate voted for the bill.

I believe our Nation deserves Justices on our Nation's highest court who appreciate that the right to vote is central in our democracy

I have done that with my Fairness in Arbitration Act, which I keep introducing.

It is simply unfair.

Forced arbitration clauses, which are buried in the fine print of contracts that we sign every day, restrict Americans' access to justice by stripping consumers and workers of their legal rights and insulating corporations from…

Marriage equality is now the law of the land.