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November 17, 2009
Klobuchar scared to show off map-drawing skills?
Apparently most senators are scared to death of trying to draw the state they represent or they are pretending they are more important.
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December 2, 2009
Al Franken criticized for ducking DC press corps
Weekend Update it's not: Minnesota's junior senator prefers to let his handlers do the talking.
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December 8, 2009
Franken calls for abortion rights in Senate's health care bill
It's the second time in recent weeks that Minnesota's junior senator has taken up traditionally feminist causes.
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December 15, 2009
Flustered Thune walks out on health care argument with Franken
Franken didn't let his freshman status in the U.S. Senate get in the way of a pointed critique of South Dakota Sen. John Thune on Monday evening.
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December 17, 2009
On video, Al Franken brings the hammer down on Joe Lieberman
The junior senator from Minnesota makes life rough for Sen. Joe Lieberman during the health care debate.
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December 21, 2009
GOP steamed over Franken tactic; McCain did same to Dayton
Reminder: Nothing ever dies on the Internet. Addendum: If it doesn't die, it may come back to bite you.
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December 22, 2009
Franken's anti-rape amendment signed into law by Obama
Franken said he was moved to act after hearing the story of a KBR employee who alleges she was gang-raped by others in the company while posted in Baghdad.
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January 6, 2010
KSTP wins access to 2008 Ramsey absentee, rejected ballots
The news opens one more chapter in the contentious dispute over the legitimacy of the 2008 election results.
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January 11, 2010
Franken wants "morning-after" pill available for military women
The freshman senator again wades into the culture wars.
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January 19, 2010
Franken's lead recount lawyer heads to Massachusetts
The right wing echo chamber is already assuming that a close election will automatically be stolen by Democrats.
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January 26, 2010
Halliburton: Woman who inspired Franken's anti-rape law is a liar
The giant defense contractor is already the object of scorn for profiteering off the war in Iraq with amoral abandon.
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February 4, 2010
Al Franken, reproductive rights, and a debate that goes nowhere
This is not news: Both sides of the abortion debate are dug in tighter than a stubborn mule. Here's a perfect example.
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February 11, 2010
Al Franken uses conflict with NBC/Comcast execs to help raise cash
Ironically, Comcast donated $5,000 to Franken's recount fund, helping to propel him into the Senate.
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March 2, 2010
Al Franken thinks he's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggone it, he's respected
Al Franken grants Roll Call his first major interview with a national publication.
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March 19, 2010
Al Franken's lightening up, Washington Post says; doggone it senators like him better
Fits of pique reinforced Franken's image as a champion of the liberal left, but now he plays squash with Republicans.
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March 30, 2010
Al Franken tells Jason Mattera to "shut up right now" about monkey bars
Conservative activist Jason Mattera tries to sandbag Sen. Al Franken, insisting that there's "$7 billion to fund jungle gyms" in the health car bill. Franken tells him he has to "shut up right now." And that line about $7 billion for monkey bars? Mattera's spouting fiction.
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May 7, 2010
Conan O'Brien joins Al Franken's rubber chicken circuit
Coco's bringing serious funny for a funny senatorIt's another sign that once oh-so-serious Sen. Al Franken is lightening up: Conan O'Brien has been booked for an invitation-only Franken fundraiser on May 17 at the Mount Curve Avenue home of Gloria Finley and Robert Levine. The following nigh ... More >>
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May 10, 2010
Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken back Elena Kagan for Supreme Court
Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken voiced strong support this morning for President Barack Obama's nomination this morning of Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the next justice for the U.S. Supreme Court. Both senators sit on the judiciary committee, wh ... More >>
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May 20, 2010
Al Franken aims to outlaw bullying of GLBT students in school
Franken says GLBT students deserve the same protections as anyone elseIt ought to be illegal to bully a school student based on sexuality. That's the the gist of legislation introduced today by Sen. Al Franken. "Our nation's civil rights laws protect our children from bullying due to race, ... More >>
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June 22, 2010
Jess McIntosh leaves Al Franken's office for EMILY'S List post
Photo: Aaron Landry/FlickrJess McIntosh and Al FrankenSen. Al Franken has now lost a key staffer at his Capitol Hill offices. Jess McIntosh, his spokeswoman for three years, says she's moving on to deputy communications director with EMILY'S List, a national Democratic abortion rights group. ... More >>
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June 23, 2010
Al Franken takes apart right wing Supreme Court [VIDEO]
Franken is going to bat for KaganThe U.S. Supreme Court has become a safe haven for the rich and powerful as part of a careful conservative campaign, and a dead end for regular folks with grievances, Sen. Al Franken said on the Senate floor yesterday (video after the jump). He invoked the ca ... More >>
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June 30, 2010
Al Franken doodles as Elena Kagan testifies
Screen grab via YouTubeFranken took some interesting notes as Elena Kagan testifiedHe's a cut up, a brawler and a napper. And it turns out Sen. Al Franken is also a pretty good doodler. Waiting his turn to question Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan before the Senate Judiciary Committee yeste ... More >>
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July 6, 2010
Newsweek takes Al Franken seriously
Image via FacebookA serious constitutionalist, or "the knee-jerk liberal everyone thought he would be?"Al Franken's doodling and dozing at Elena Kagan's Supreme Court confirmation hearings last week created some web buzz and the usual criticisms of Senator Smalley. But when it came time for F ... More >>
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July 14, 2010
Tim Pawlenty rates felons a natural Al Franken constituency
We don't know if how many convicted felons actually, really and truly voted illegally and flipped the 2008 U.S. Senate race for Democrat Al Franken. And frankly, we're a little skeptical about taking a Republican pressure group's "research" at face value over the matter. Not so Tim Pawlenty. ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
Michele Bachmann, Tarryl Clark and Al Franken converge on Sin City
Photo: David SalafiaMinnesota pols hope that what they say in Vegas will travel far and wideWhat happens in Vegas with Michele Bachmann, Tarryl Clark and Al Franken will almost certainly not stay in Vegas, and that's the way they want it. Bachmann's slated as an attention grabber for the Rig ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Al Franken gavels Elena Kagan's Supreme Court vote to a close
Image Via YouTubeAl Franken does the honors during Elena Kagan's Senate confirmation vote.Solicitor General Elena Kagan was confirmed for the Supreme Court this afternoon and Minnesota freshman Sen. Al Franken gaveled the vote to a close by declaring "the nomination is confirmed." The vote wa ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Al Franken finds a hole in his condo window
Image via WikipediaIs Al Franken under attack?Writing a headline over a story about what might be a hole shot in the window of Al Franken's downtown Minneapolis condo is tricky business. After all, we've had more than 30 homicides in Minneapolis this year, and a lot more shootings to boot. If ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Al Franken mocks Islamophobes opposing Cordoba House
Al Franken warns Republicans about Muslim point guards on the basketball court.Sen. Al Franken, fresh off a BB gun attack on his condo, took some time out yesterday from the rubber chicken circuit in Illinois to mock the Islamophobes making political hay over a Muslim community center planned ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
Al Franken will rescue net neutrality after he deals with his in-laws
Al Franken doesn't want to tick off the in-lawsFor months now, Sen. Al Franken has used every available microphone to warn about the dire future of net neutrality: The principle that demands no Internet Service Providers or governments be allowed to tamper with the content, access, speed and ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Al Franken near tears after GOP halts Don't Ask Don't Tell debate [VIDEO]
Al Franken on the Senate floorSen. Al Franken has done seven USO tours to military bases in war zones since 1999. For almost as long, he's been mocking the military's anti-gay Don't Ask Don't Tell policy from the stage, getting big laughs from the troops. But he almost broke into tears on th ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Al Franken goofs in the Senate again
Franken likes to keep things lightAl Franken got into blooper territory while presiding over the Senate yesterday. First, he blasted classical music over the speakers. Then he yelled "Oh God!" when he mixed up some states. Gotta love the comic relief on a boring day. Franken's gaffe: He was sitt ... More >>
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November 1, 2010
"Please ID Me" buttons not OK at polls
Image by dbaird"Please ID Me" buttons aren't allowed hereToday a federal judge told tea partiers NO, they may not wear "Please I.D. Me" buttons to the polls. So if someone asks to see your photo ID, just give 'em the hand. And if they take your picture, take one right back. Minnesota election la ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Mark Ritchie wins re-election so he can run another recount
Time for a recount re-match.The Republicans couldn't beat Al Franken in the 2008 U.S. Senate election that stretched into the 2009 recount, and they've been after Secretary of State Mark Ritchie ever since. He ran a biased and incompetent recount, they insisted. He gave us "felons for Frank ... More >>
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November 11, 2010
Al Franken's doodle framed on Capitol Hill
Al Franken can doodle with the best of 'em.We all had a good chuckle at Al Franken's expense when he tried to keep himself awake during those boring Elena Kagan Supreme Court hearings by sketching. Well, his likeness of Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions is now framed and decorating Sessions' office o ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Bob Dylan is this year's version of the Lizard People [VIDEO]
Blowin' in the recount.Remember the Lizard People, the mysterious write-in candidates who added one more layer of weirdness to the Al Franken-Norm Coleman Senate race recount battle in 2008? Thanks to the ever vigilant folks at The UpTake, we have a worthy successor: Bob Dylan. Hibbing's fa ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
Al Franken: Net neutrality rules permit political censorship [UPDATE]
Franken: Keep it neutral.The compromise net neutrality rules just adopted by the FCC would prohibit broadband providers like Comcast and Qwest from blocking user access to websites and applications. But the measure won't do the same thing for wireless companies, and Al Franken smells censor ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Al Franken rips into FCC approval of Comcast-NBC merger
Al Franken loses the Comcast-NBC merger fight.The Comcast-NBC Universal merger got an official green light today from the Federal Communications Commission, paving the way on a 4-1 vote for another major consolidation in the telecom industry. It's a merger that Al Franken has battled from th ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
Al Franken will mentor Rand Paul
Al Franken will be Rand Paul's Democratic mentor.Right-wingers concerned about their favored politicians drinking the Capitol Hill Kool-Aid instead of the tea must be gagging over this news: Freshman GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky wants our very own liberal firebrand Al Franken to be his Democrat ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Al Franken reportedly targeted by U.S. Army psy-ops to boost funding
franken.senate.govAl Franken with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Sen. Carl Levin in Kabul, January 2010.A U.S. Army officer appears to have mistaken U.S. lawmakers for the real enemy in Afghanistan. Sen. Al Franken was among a group of Senate and House members who were reportedly the targ ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
David Petraeus wants to know if Al Franken was brainwashed
Petraeus: Serious about an investigation.Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in Afghanistan, has ordered an investigation over a report last week that alleges a military psy-ops team tried to play mind tricks on visiting U.S. lawmakers -- including Sen. Al Franken. The goal, acco ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Will Al Franken take on Android too?
Steve Jobs, the object of Al Franken's ire.We took note yesterday that Sen. Al Franken has fired off a nastygram to Apple boss Steve Jobs over published reports that iPhones and iPads were tracking and storing the movements of their users for some purpose yet to be revealed. Now we're wonder ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
Al Franken wants Apple and Google to testify about smartphone tracking
Al Franken wants Apple, Google at privacy hearings.Sen. Al Franken is wading ever deeper into the controversy over whether smartphones are secretly tracking their user's locations. As chairman of the Privacy, Technology and the Law Subcommittee, he's calling on Apple and Google representati ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
Steve Jobs will testify in Al Franken's hearings on iPhone tracking
Jobs says his iPhones aren't tracking anyone.It sounds like Apple CEO Steve Jobs has agreed to testify before Sen. Al Franken's subcommittee on privacy and technology, following an uproar over stories that iPhones and iPads were tracking the location of their users and storing the data, appar ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Apple cuts back iPhone tracking after Al Franken bites
Al Franken wants a word or two with Steve JobsSen. Al Franken appears to have taken a bite out of Apple. Stung by bad PR, angry customers and the promise of Senate hearings chaired by Franken, the computer maker says it has released an update to iPhones to cut back on the amount of time the ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
Al Franken and Rand Paul: The New Odd Couple
Franken and Paul.We thought it was pretty funny when we heard that liberal warrior Sen. Al Franken was going to serve as mentor for freshly-minted Kentucky tea party Sen. Rand Paul. The relationship had all the makings of The Odd Couple, with Franken in the role of Felix, all buttoned down, ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
Al Franken joins "It Gets Better" video campaign
Franken and 12 other senators joined Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" campaign. Al Franken has a solid record as a supporter of gay rights, from his vocal support of gay marriage to voting for and sometimes authoring GLBT-friendly legislation. Now Franken has joined 12 other U.S. Senators in re ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Al Franken: "Unwillingness to compromise" might kill Obama's jobs bill
Al Franken says Obama's jobs plan can't survive political wrangling.Al Franken watched the debate to raise the debt ceiling drag on -- and on, and on -- over party politics. Franken doesn't want to see the same thing happen with Barack Obama's new jobs plan, but he fears it might anyway.America's ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Al Franken questions Google's internet search monopoly
Al Franken asked questions that Google CEO Eric Schmidt can't answer.Al Franken loves Google. He just doesn't trust it. That's what came out at yesterday's contentious Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, which saw Google's CEO Eric Schmidt squirming a bit under the hot light of government oversi ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
Garden of Truth report chronicles histories of abuse among Native American prostitutes
Al Franken wants to update the Violence Against Women Act specifically to fit Native American women's needs.The Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition released a report today aggregating the stories of Native American women from around the state involved in prostitution. Titled "Gard ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Poll: Klobuchar "close to unbeatable," Franken solid
Though their support for PIPA angered some, our senators appear to be in very good political shape.Apparently the PIPA debacle hasn't significantly hurt the political fortunes of Al Franken or Amy Klobuchar.A new Public Policy Polling poll conducted over last weekend concludes that Klobuchar will ... More >>
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