By a vote of 68-31, with Sen. Al Franken sitting in as the body’s president, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Al Franken envisioned himself becoming President of the United States a decade ago in his book, “Why Not Me?” And today, for a time, he was president — of the U.S. Senate. It’s a temporary task…
Updated: U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar woke up today to a colleague’s voice on her clock radio, sounding off against the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor because of “the empathy standard.” On the floor of the Senate she told…
Anti-abortion group Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life called on Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken to reverse their Senate Judiciary Committee votes to approve Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday. In a letter to the senators, MCCL said…
Sen. Al Franken was famously contained during the long period of limbo between Election Day and his swearing-in, suppressing his wit by keeping mum in an effort to seem more senatorial. So when a video of Franken impersonating the…
Rep. Michele Bachmann is one of a handful of Congress members who have expressed concerns to Warner Brothers about the summer horror movie Orphan, set to be released in theaters on…
Minnesota’s two Democratic senators, Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, joined the Judiciary committee this year (in Franken’s case, this month), and their votes on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court — scheduled for tomorrow — will…
It’s standard political rhetoric to claim you speak for many. During hearings this week, both the Senate Judiciary Committee’s longest-serving member (Orrin Hatch of Utah) and its newest (Al Franken of Minnesota) boasted that their questions for…
During this week’s Judiciary Committee hearings, no senator asked Judge Sonia Sotomayor about her health. It would have been a legitimate area of inquiry, an expert told the Minnesota Independent, because Sotomayor’s Type I diabetes…
NBC just dug a timely video out of its vaults: Al Franken playing a U.S. senator on the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, questioning a U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Now viewers can compare and contrast his 1991 and 2009 performances.
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