Al Franken

So Justice Kagan made the same argument in her dissent when she wrote that arbitration could be used to 'block the vindication of meritorious federal claims and insulate wrongdoers from liability.'

I think that the case for the Arbitration Fairness Act is pretty clear.

I think we can all agree that that is a good law. Literally, we can all agree. This law passed by unanimous consent.

Basically in this, you know, Justice Scalia said that it did not matter that you were not able to vindicate your claims.

Kevin cannot get justice, but Kevin also cannot prevent injustice to others.

That to me is just an outrage. That is an outrage.

By making it so hard to recover, by making it so costly to arbitrate, by having to operate alone, that you cannot effectively vindicate yourself, you cannot have effective vindication, and that is what this is all about.

You keep saying there are three--there is oversight from all three branches of Government. We are one of the branches, and we are doing the oversight.

Do you think that the American people have the right to know roughly how many of them have had their information collected by the NSA?

I am not suggesting that you have to tell people they are being surveilled, that they personally are a suspect.

Part of the reason to have transparency is for people to be able to make their decisions based on some real information about whether or not this power is being abused or not.

My feeling is this: that the American people are skeptical of executive power.

Sequestration is a policy that was never meant to go into effect.

I can applaud community college system leadership that are actually trying to make community college an even more affordable path than what we've described today.

I'm really concerned what climate change is doing to our ecosystems.

Can you tell me why it seems that Indian Affairs gets the short stick from the Administration?

I would like to talk for a few minutes about a subject that will affect all of us at some point in our lives; that is, the safety of our medicine. If my child or wife urgently needed medicine, I would have a number of questions: Will my…

And we still have a long-term unemployment problem. So many of those adults that we're talking about could actually find a way into a job if they knew that a community and technical college could provide that path.

I challenge those voices to visit Red Lake or any of the hundreds of tribal communities that have been hit so hard by these cuts.

If sequestration is allowed to continue into next year, the remaining six mental health counselors will be let go.

There is no question that the American people need more information about these programs.

This bill is very important, albeit only a first step.

This bill is urgently necessary. Americans understand that we need to give due weight to privacy, on the one hand, and national security, on the other.

We know those technologies.

In fact, the opposite is true, that it is a tiny, tiny number.