Al Franken

more families are staying together, are being reunited.

This is a bipartisan thing. I wrote a letter to make sure that we keep funding for this, and I got bipartisan support.

Hope is--what is it?--fear that said its prayers.

We also urge you to include technology and/or engineering teachers alongside math and science teachers as eligible participants in all programs enacted to recruit, train, mentor, retain, and further educate K-12 teachers.

Without a legislative fix, the question is how do we hold these non-Indian offenders responsible?

we owe Indian Country a special debt for our own negligence and our own guilt in not fully funding education and fully funding law enforcement and fully funding health care that we, by treaty, we are supposed to do.

I have introduced bipartisan legislation that would prohibit any State, local, or tribal hospital from billing rape victims for their rape kits.

We have recognized that the need was so tremendous.

According to the testimony yesterday we had in Judiciary on VAWA, maybe the most important period of time for a woman leaving an abusive situation is right after she has left.

The shortage of law enforcement officials in Indian Country account for the lack of prosecutions and enforcement of domestic violence.

But if there is no place to transition to----

I have a bill that I introduced with Senator Blumenthal called 'The Location Privacy Protection Act' that would criminalize the worst of these apps.

It is critical that we provide resources to law enforcement to be able to respond.

We have to have funding for these emergency shelters and transitional housing until they can get in a situation where they stand on their own and can get geographically safe.

Because in the long term, these kids, when they--the choice, if we do not fund the shelters, if we do not fund the transition, these kids going back in the situation are witnessing this or are subject to it.

I love electric cooperatives.

I want to applaud Ms. Gordon and SunRun for finding a way to finance this and for owning this and finding a way of creating more solar energy in this country.

I like this on-bill financing. I take note of this about the need for--or getting rid of the need for excess, for building new utilities. That's an important thing.

So the vitality, the dynamic nature of our economy is helped by defined benefits.

I'm sorry. I was kidding. You take your time on that one.

I have a defined benefit plan from being a member of a union.

So when we're really talking about cost savings, we've got to talk about the whole picture here.

I rise today to talk about our debt crisis, our short-term debt crisis and our long-term debt crisis. I come here today to discuss ways to address them and ways not to address them. Our most immediate debt crisis is now upon us. In order…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Blumenthal). Without objection, it is so ordered.

I would like to let everyone know that today I will be sending my own letter to the President in support of deferred action.