“I think I did very well by Minnesota. I kept my head down and did my job,” Sen. Al Franken tells the Pioneer Press, in an interview about his first six months as a senator.
Al Franken is shown with his wife, Franni, at a Jan. 11 rally in support of Israel at the Sabes JCC in St. Louis Park. (Photo: Mordecai Specktor)
Jason Hoppin of the the Pioneer Press sums up Minnesota’s junior senator’s accomplishments:
He recently visited Afghanistan as part of a U.S. delegation, and he’s passed two bills: one providing service dogs to wounded veterans and the other prohibiting government contracts with defense contractors who make employee arbitration mandatory, even in cases of assault. The latter is based on the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, a former KBR employee in Iraq who sued after allegedly being drugged by co-workers, gang-raped and held in a shipping container.
Franken also got attention during the contentious health care debate, not only for his support of the public option but also for inserting a rule into the bill requiring insurers to spend 85 percent of premiums on health care.
You can read excerpts from the Franken interview HERE.
