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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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Comcast/NBC-Universal merger greased by tens of millions in contributions and lobbyist fees

By | 10.11.11 | 9:12 am

The 2011 merger of Comcast and NBC-Universal created one of the largest media conglomerates in American history, which critics warn could limit the variety of voices heard by the public and threaten the internet’s role as a forum for free exchange of information.

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Sen. Al Franken calls for explicit ban on LGBT discrimination in schools

By | 09.15.11 | 12:56 pm

U.S. Sen. Al Franken called for an “explicit ban” on discrimination against LGBT students in a civil rights hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday.

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VIDEO: Franken grills Focus on the Family head during DOMA repeal hearing

By | 07.20.11 | 10:27 am

At a hearing on the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, Sen. Al Franken took issue with the testimony of Tom Minnery, the head of Focus on the Family’s political arm, CitizenLink. After Minnery cited a government study he said showed that the children of married gay and lesbian couples fared worse than married opposite-sex couples, Franken flatly stated that Minnery was wrong and called into question any further testimony from Minnery.

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Udall joins Senate group seeking to guard net neutrality from budget attack

By | 06.30.11 | 9:04 am

No one loved the internet rules written by the Federal Communications Commission last year that sought to safeguard the free-flowing egalitarian quality of the internet, where communication-industry giants don’t get to decide which information streams to users and at what speed. One side thought the rules were overreaching socialism and the other thought they were riven with the kind of loopholes corporate interests could wiggle through when it came time to assert control. In the spring, Republicans in the House opposed to the rules voted to strip the FCC of the cash it would need to enforce the rules. On Wednesday, a small band of senators, including Colorado’s Mark Udall, sent a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Ranking Member Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) objecting to the House action and asking the committee to strip out the budget amendment that would hold back the FCC funds.

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