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«Ashamed» U.S. Sen. Al Franken says he will return to work today and believes he can still be effective, days after four women who said they were touched inappropriately by the Minnesota Democrat.
«It's clearer than ever now that the attorney general can not, in good faith, oversee an investigation at the Department of Justice and the FBI of the Trump - Russia connection, and he must recuse himself immediately,» Franken said.
«I have no doubt that you recognize the significance of your new role, but your stated opposition to strong net neutrality rules raises serious concerns about your commitment to honoring the First Amendment,» Franken said in a statement last month.
Franken said he could not support Stras, nominated by Trump in March, and would not be returning a blue slip to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
«It was a private offering that only went to about 20 people, including your colleague Chris Collins, his chief of staff [and] a prominent D.C. lobbyist,» Franken said, according to Politico.
Franken said he would welcome it.
«I of all people am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party,» Franken said during his resignation speech.
Al Franken said he was going to resign.
«I know progressives are frustrated... because it feels at times not everyone in our party is pushing at the same pace,» Democratic Sen. Franken said Saturday night at the annual Netroots Nation convention.
«I have spent more time on this bill than any other bill in my time here,» Franken said.
«The four models for how to transform the schools I don't think fit terribly well with rural schools because there just aren't that many teachers or principals available,» Franken said.
Franken said he asked the principal to elaborate.
«There may be disagreement on whether things should be optional for the states,» Franken said.
«While we didn't go into math and science careers, I felt that there's actually a lot in my career that has to do with logic, like writing a joke,» Franken said.
«These [current] tests are teaching these little discrete skills and teachers are trying to drill those things,» Franken said.
«I'm hoping that we'll pass an NCLB reform bill soon,» Franken said.
Franken said it was too early to comment further on the waiver plan before seeing more details.
«I have some disagreements in terms of what you do with the bottom 5 percent of the schools,» Franken said.
«My daughter became a teacher right out of college,» through New York City's Teaching Fellows Program, Franken said.
In Minnesota, Franken said a principal he met called the current tests used to measure NCLB «autopsies.»
Franken said service dogs typically cost about $ 20,000 to train and another $ 5,000 to place with a veteran — a cost that is well worth the investment.
Franken said Montalvan and his service dog, a golden retriever named Tuesday — both of whom he had met at a presidential inaugural ball — inspired his proposal.
Not exact matches
In a statement on Tuesday, Franken's office reiterated that he would not run, saying the senator would «spend the next several years fighting on behalf of Minnesota families.»
Tweeden said that Franken had been headlining the tour and wrote a comedy skit in which Franken's character attempted to kiss Tweeden's character.
«If you look back at the last eight years of what Republican senators did, there is plenty of bad behavior which is much worse than what Franken did the other day,» Tobias said hours before the Oregon senators announced their intention to block Trump's nominee to the 9th Circuit.
Franken resigned after a Senate ethics panel looked into accusations from eight women who said he had groped and forcibly kissed them.
«They allow corporate America to take advantage of a shadow justice system,» Sen. Al Franken, D - Minn., said of the arbitration clauses.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a radio interview Thursday said it's up to Sen. Al Franken as to whether he should resign as he faces allegations of groping and unwanted sexual contact from a half - dozen women.
Gillibrand last week declined to call for Franken's resignation, saying in a WCNY interview that the ethics investigation into the allegations should be played out and that whether he stays in office is up to him.
She said Franken, as well as President Donald Trump, should go through the process of an investigation.
A prominent donor to the Democratic Party, Susie Tompkins Buell, says she is considering withdrawing support for senators — including Gillibrand — who urged their colleague Al Franken to resign after he was accused of sexual misconduct.
On the subject of the recent allegation by a woman that Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) groped and sexually assaulted her in 2006, Gillibrand said «it's very disturbing,» and «I was very disappointed.
«You have to be concerned anytime somebody's lawyers up and try to pull an Al Franken, if you will,» Miller said, referring to the Minnesota Democratic senator who took his seat after emerging from a lengthy recount against incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman with a 312 - vote win.
We have a Senate candidate who has alleged to have been harassing high school students,» Gillibrand said, referring, respectively, to Sen. Al Franken (D - Minn.)
Franken's office says he will have an announcement on Thursday.
But Gillibrand said she would rather focus on present - day troubles that now include Democratic U.S. Sen. Al Franken and Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, as well as the allegations that surfaced against President Donald Trump last year.
A second woman has accused Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of inappropriate touching, saying he put his hand on her bottom as they posed for a picture at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010 — after he had begun his career in the Senate.
Resigning amid sexual harassment accusations, soon - to - be former Sen. Al Franken gave a farewell speech to the Senate, criticizing the Trump administration and saying the war for truth is being lost.
At least four U.S. senators are urging Al Franken to reconsider resigning, including two who issued statements calling for the resignation two weeks ago and said they now feel remorse over what they feel was a rush to judgment.
Fifty percent of American voters think Sen. Al Franken should resign over allegations of sexual misconduct against him, while 46 percent said he should be expelled from the Senate, according to a new poll.
A Democratic official who has spoken to Al Franken and key aides says Franken will resign his Minnesota Senate seat tomorrow, the official tells MPR News.
Despite calls from some of his colleagues for him to «unresign,» U.S. Sen. Al Franken will step down on Jan. 2, a spokesman for the Minnesota Democrat said.
ALBANY — The 2005 party at which Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is alleged by a political opponent to have snorted cocaine was a benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina headlined by Al Franken, its organizer said.
«It's very disturbing,» Ms. Gillibrand said of Mr. Franken.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Thursday morning that she did not publicly call for Sen. Al Franken to resign over several allegations of sexual misconduct because the two Minnesota Democrats are colleagues.
Kombiz Lavasany, another Drinking Liberally activist who was in attendance, said Franken gave a speech about the importance of building social capital as a form of democratic participation that transcended voting.
«Why hasn't Donald Trump come forward and said, «You know what, in this climate, at this point in this country, I'm going to resign from my position just like Al Franken,» Booker told Vice.
«Schumer and the vast majority of the caucus like Sen. Franken and will miss him,» said a Senate Democratic leadership aide, «but did what they felt was best and stand by it.»
Gillibrand said it's up to Franken whether to resign, while quickly adding it was «outrageous» that there is no investigation of Trump despite more than a dozen sexual harassment allegations.