Al Franken

They want to get rid of the ACA. They and, you know, Trump has wanted to get rid of Obamacare.

This is a done deal. In terms of, you know, this is a kabuki game asking her these questions that she obviously one answer, she wouldn't answer.

What I hope is that the voters in North Carolina and in South Carolina and Texas and in Iowa, they know what's happening. It's very obvious what's happened. And I hope that all of them pay a real price at election.

Everything he does is inappropriate.

This is the biggest issue of the campaign is how spectacularly this guy failed at dealing with this pandemic, and that has to do with not just the 170,000-plus deaths, but it has to do with the destruction, the collapse of our economy.

that ICE continues to place many detainees with mental health concerns in administrative or disciplinary segregation--also known as solitary confinement--contrary to agency directives.

this is my final speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate. I have come to the floor many times, as we all have. We come to the floor to cast our votes on bills and amendments. We come here to discuss and debate the issues that are important…

I rise to deliver the second in a series of floor speeches that I offer as I close out my time in the Senate. This afternoon, I want to talk about Americans' relationship with telecommunications and technology companies and what that means…

unlike most of my colleagues, the time I spent here in the Senate represents the sum total of my experience in elected office. For most of my life I approached politics and public policy from a very different perspective. I tried to be an…

I thank the Senator from Oregon, my friend, for his extraordinarily kind words. He, too, has been a leader introducing the first net neutrality bill back in 2006, before I came to the Senate. I rise to talk about tomorrow's vote at the FCC…

I am proud that the Affordable Care Act expanded parity protections to people who do not have employer sponsored coverage and seek care through the individual market.

I think it is very important, but I did a roundtable in Minneapolis and one of the providers there, one of the counselors said to me.

My predecessor, Senator Paul Wellstone, made it his life's work to fight for people with mental illness, pushing ceaselessly for mental health parity.

I want to talk about Indian country again and Senator Hassan talked about PTSD and talked about trauma.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and the Ranking Member, for holding this series of hearings on prescription drug prices.

Mr. Azar responded by explaining that Medicare Part D, working with Pharmacy Benefit Managers, already secures the best net pricing available.

I am especially proud that many of the recommendations from the Academies track closely the changes that my colleagues and I proposed in the Improving Access to Affordable Prescription Drugs Act.

a very large majority of the Members of your Committee disagree with Mr. Azar's assessment.

For some reason in other countries, they are able to do this. They are able to contain this.

Patients, especially those in Minnesota, need relief.

a couple of months ago, I felt we had entered an important moment in the history of this country. We were finally beginning to listen to women about the ways in which men's actions affect them. The moment was long overdue. I was excited…

I'm leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party.

It's kind of ironic that we have a man who was caught on tape bragging about sexual assault.

Senator Al Franken, now Republican Congressman Trent Franks says he'll resign at the end of January.

a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota