Al Franken

I think that in these cases the Supreme Court was legislating from the bench, which is being activist.

I noted that for years, conservatives running for the Senate have made it almost an article of faith that they will not vote for activist judges who make law from the bench.

make sure that every single person gets the opportunity to come before the Court and gets the opportunity to make his best case and gets a fair shake.

I am proud today to be joining Senator Hagan in introducing the MTM Expanded Benefits Act. We all know that prescription drugs are an essential part of health care. What a lot of people don't know is that only about 50 percent of Americans…

What can we do to encourage insurers to cover treatments in such cases?

I expect that the number of people obtaining care through this program to continue to increase especially as many of the older patients retire and move out of the New York City area.

today I note with sorrow the passing of one of America's great jurists, Judge Gerald W. Heaney. Judge Heaney died Tuesday in Duluth, MN. Judge Heaney served with distinction and honor for 40 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…

What kind of laws do we need to pass to shut them down?

Less than 10 percent of students attend for-profit schools, and yet 70 percent of the fraud cases are for-profit schools.

I'll be damned if I'm going to be a Senator and not do that job.

$300 billion is a lot of money. It's the taxpayers money.

These proprietary schools are much, much, much, much more likely to be investigated.

It just is shocking to me how much of you give Pell Grants.

It seems then that what we have to do is change the rules, right? And that's kind of our job.

We need to have good information. We need to have data.

I would like to shut them down.

If some company can pay for priority Internet access, that kid might not be able to have a shot.

I just want to make sure that when we are doing our trade agreements and talking to our trading partners, that we have the leverage to be able to make that happen.

on December 12, 2006, Immigration and Customs Enforcement staged raids on Swift & Company meatpacking plants in six states--Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, and my home State of Minnesota. Over 1,500 unauthorized immigrants were…

I rise today to talk about Americans' basic right to have their day in court. The Supreme Court has always been a towering institution, both physically and metaphorically. Until recently, as visitors walked up the steep steps of the…

The entertainment industry is truly an American industry and, as you put it, one of the all too few American industries that generates a substantial trade surplus.

I do not want what happened to the record industry to happen to the motion picture industry.

I am extremely concerned about Net neutrality.

What I found out about it was that they were de-funding programs and that private operators of group homes were taking over, and that they were spending less money.

The way they would spend less money is to pay less for care and give shorter hours to the people taking care of those most vulnerable of our citizens.