Al Franken

I think that`s kind of exactly the right idea. I think that we should put -- the elements of the bill are extremely popular. And what we should do is just put them out one by one, and have, you know, have Americans see for themselves what…

I have been hearing the evidence, and the most guilty person that I can see right now is Donald Trump.

Harry was very encouraging. In fact, Chuck Schumer was less so. And Harry was really the one who got behind me and I won that first one, I clobbered Norm Coleman by 312 votes, as you may recall.

If they come up with a deal, that will happen.

One thing that people of West Virginia really want is lower-priced insulin. And that is in this bill, finally.

You know, this is just part of the big lie. You know, if Trump had won, he would have been touting the vaccine, he would have said, Oh, I -- it was my idea to go as fast as you could to get a vaccine as if we`re the greatest pandemic in…

And that is an existential threat to our democracy.

It is, I still believe it will happen. Because it kind of has to, and I wish they would get on with it.

What is great about this is that it gives us the time to get Sinema and to get Manchin and to get all 51 with the vice president on board on a package and if we tell the American people and keep telling the American people what’s in it.

I think Mitch was afraid they would be forced into doing that. They feel forced to do it. This though gives us time to pass build back better.

I think what McConnell was worried about is that this is a game of chicken and McConnell blinked because Democrats could have just changed the rules.

We have to pass this bill and you can carve out and say for, you know, elections, this is our democracy.

This is an existential threat to our democracy. If we lose our democracy, it`s - we lose everything.

It would be insane to default. Absolutely insane. We can`t do it. The dollar is the default currency of the world. We can`t let it not be.

The child tax credit, reduce poverty by childhood poverty by half, biggest middle class, working class, tax cut, low income tax cut in the history of the country.

He’s going to send it out. He’s, as he said, you know, before the commercial, he said he’s destroyed the Senate. He did that by -- he did more filibusters of executive nominees during Obama than been done in the previous history of the…

We`re going to get there. And Sinema was very helpful on the bipartisan infrastructure package. She`s going to get there.

Mitch McConnell is cynical. Mitch McConnell is in this, and the Republican Party right now doesn`t stand for anything, I think, other than maybe for low tax cuts for their donors.

This is not a bill that we can pass through reconciliation like we did the Relief Act. So this immediately brings to question the filibuster.

I would like to see them defend why it is a crime to give someone water waiting in line to vote.

He’s kind of right. If everybody had a right to vote gets to vote, they would probably lose. That’s why, you know, all these states have been passing these laws to try to suppress votes. And then the most alarming thing, of course, is…

Mitch McConnell filibustered more executive nominees when Barack Obama was president than had been filibustered in the entire previous history of the United States.

This immediately brings to question the filibuster and I was encouraged that Joe Manchin in this audio that was released the other day by the intercept, has said that he is open to a modification of the filibuster.

Well, there`s a lot of time between that and now and what Democrats have to do is accomplish stuff for the American people.

I think that we`re heading in that direction. Joe was very, very frustrated with the vote on the January 6 commission.