Al Franken

This is my first hearing as Ranking Member of the Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee, and I look forward to working with my friend, Chairman Isakson.

I object. I am joking. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Tennessee.

This isn't about lawsuits; this is about schools doing the right thing when the parents ask. They are the same protections granted to the kids by virtue of their race. That wasn't a local issue; that was a Federal right we had to pass. The…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for 30 more seconds. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Minnesota.

may I ask how much time is remaining? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota has 10 seconds at this time.

the Student Non-Discrimination Act would extend the same Federal civil rights protections available to other children to LGBT children. I feel very strongly about this, and let me tell you why. LGBT kids are facing an epidemic of bullying…

I rise to speak about the urgency of passing the Student Non-Discrimination Act, which takes the same protections that children have against discrimination on the basis of race and national origin and gender and disability, and it extends…

I ask unanimous consent that Boris Granovskiy, a fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the 114th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

we have been living under No Child Left Behind, or NCLB, for 13 years. During that time, we have learned a lot about how NCLB works and a lot more about what doesn't work. Students, teachers, and parents across the country have been…

That is why I have co-sponsored legislation to fix the Carcieri decision in every Congress since I came to the Senate.

The ability of the Department of the Interior to place land into trust for Indian Tribes is essential to sovereignty.

I rise today to talk briefly about trade adjustment assistance, or TAA, and about trade enforcement. I will be supporting the TAA bill. Tribute to Casey Aden-Wansbury But before I talk about that, I would like to recognize my chief of…

I support this bill because rural communities in Southwestern Minnesota have critical water needs.

The Authorized Rural Water Projects Completion Act would provide dedicated annual funding for Lewis and Clark and projects like it.

Weren't there courses that students would take and they wouldn't be able to get a job after?

That is not the case, and there are students who are being left in the lurch there.

I think that when you're accrediting an institution, there should be some look as to whether they're committing fraud in telling their students what their courses are about.

Every year, I write the Appropriations Committee asking for more funding.

It seems to me that what we're saying is that there's agreement that we're going in the right direction, and that this is good and we don't want to not do--we want to keep doing this, but we've got to either simplify or--and make it…

I applaud you for your work on children. Thank you for traveling all this way to come here and tell us this.

I will do everything I can to work with you and Senator Murkowski.

It is critical that we provide the necessary resources to assist victims effectively.

a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota

I rise today to thank Rabbi Harold Kravitz for offering the opening prayer today in the Senate and to praise him for all of his excellent work. Rabbi Kravitz is rabbi at Adath Jeshurun in my State of Minnesota and is an important leader in…

This is supposed to lead to savings. This is supposed to lead to coordinated care. This is supposed to lead to value.