Sentences with phrase «franken hold»
Currently, Democratic challenger Al Franken holds a slight lead of about 50 votes over Republican incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman, but this number does not reflect what could be more than a thousand improperly rejected absentee ballots still to be tallied, which would sway results.
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The three - judge panel's ruling is a break for Democrat Al Franken, who currently holds a 225 vote lead over Coleman.
@blip But none of those (with the possible exception of Franken) were «successfully elected to the highest state or federal offices available without holding a more junior elected position first».
It was Senate Democratic women, including Ms. Gillibrand, who forced Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, a fellow Democrat, to announce his resignation last week, clearing away any ambiguity over their push to hold the president accountable.
Franken was also photographed holding the woman's breasts while she slept on a plane.
Franken, for example, has decided to hold off on a vote for an amendment aiming to reduce bullying of LGBT youth that was controversial among Republicans, especially given the recent fights over Indiana's religious freedom law.
Sen. Al Franken's elicitation of her lack of understanding between growth and proficiency, her disdain for gun - free school zones (in front of a Newtown representative, no less), her view of sexual assault on campuses, her refusal to assure Sen. Tim Kaine that she would hold all schools that receive public funds — traditional, public charter, private, parochial — to the same standards of accountability: Shall we count the ways she equivocated on civil rights, equity, safety and basic comprehension of pressing educational matters?
At one point, Democratic Sen. Al Franken even held his head in his hands as he lamented loudly that Facebook should have caught Russian disinformation far sooner than it did.