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Posts Tagged Al Franken

Civil liberties watchdogs concerned by FBI facial recognition program

By | 10.25.12 | 9:43 am

In July, Sen. Al Franken opened a Senate hearing on the privacy and civil liberties implications of facial recognition technology by affirming some incontrovertible facts. “You can change your password. You can get a new credit card. But you can’t change your fingerprint, and you can’t change your face,” Franken said. “Unless I guess you go to a great, you know, deal of trouble.”

Bennet joins group to address Super PAC situation

By | 03.14.12 | 10:58 am

On the heels of a new poll that shows 70 percent of Americans think Super PACs should be outlawed, Colorado Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has joined a task force to craft a new legislative response to blunt the impact from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision allowing corporations and anonymous special interests to spend unlimited sums to influence elections.

Forestry budgets sapped by scourges of warming climate

By | 03.06.12 | 2:42 pm

The warming climate is breeding more beetle-ravaged forest and prolonged fire seasons, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he fielded questions about the White House’s proposed agency budget for fiscal year 2013.

Bennet calls for greater transparency in election spending

By | 02.22.12 | 9:49 am

Voters deserve to know who is paying for political advertisements, Colorado Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and 10 other senators wrote Tuesday in a letter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

VIDEO: Al Franken cuts ad supporting marriage equality

By | 01.30.12 | 5:37 am

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minnesota, lent his likeness to a new video series launched by the Human Rights Campaign called “Americans for Marriage Equality.” Franken is the first member of Congress to appear in a video for the campaign, which supports equal rights for same-sex couples, even as legislators in his home state have put a constitutional measure banning marriage equality on the 2012 ballot. The video was released late last week.

Udall introduces bill to ensure that Americans cannot be held indefinitely without charges

By | 12.16.11 | 3:14 pm

Today, Senator Mark Udall, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, announced that he has joined Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein in introducing the Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011, to clarify that American citizens apprehended inside the United States cannot be indefinitely detained by the military.

Bipartisan bill aims to amend estate tax code to conserve America’s farms and ranches

By | 11.29.11 | 10:34 am

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall has proposed a change to the estate tax code to keep more farms and ranches intact.

Udall, Franken gang up to keep potatoes in school lunches

By | 11.01.11 | 4:37 pm

Today, Senator Mark Udall’s amendment to prevent limits on the amount of starchy vegetables that schools can serve passed the Senate as part of a larger bill.

Franken introduces bill to beef up protections for seniors

By | 10.23.11 | 5:33 am

Sen. Al Franken introduced a bill Friday that would offer seniors who receive long-term care at home the same protections from abuse as those afforded to seniors living in nursing homes.

Franken leads charge to reform No Child Left Behind

By | 10.21.11 | 7:15 am

Arguing the current standard for student assessment is a “perversity” that leads to a “race to the middle,” Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) successfully introduced an amendment that would better gauge student learning and knowledge. The proposal is part of the ongoing Senate debate over how to move the nation’s major education law of the land beyond No Child Left Behind.

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