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May 25, 2011
Huffington Post: Al Franken To President Obama: Give Elizabeth Warren A Recess Appointment To Lead The CFPB
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) urged President Obama Wednesday to grant Elizabeth Warren a recess appointment to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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May 24, 2011
ECM Publishers: Sen. Franken offers congratulations to the graduating Class of 2011
It's graduation season, and across Minnesota, students are taking big steps forward. Amidst all the congratulations and well wishes, they're hearing a lot of advice on how to succeed in the world.
Here's the thing I tell younger folks about success: It doesn't always come the way you think it will. In fact, "success" doesn't always even end up meaning the same thing you thought it would when you started out.
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Minnesota Independent:Obama, Franken speak out against Minnesota anti–gay marriage amendment
Sen. Al Franken and the White House both issued statements on Monday regarding a proposed anti–gay marriage amendment to the Minnesota Constitution. Obama's message was lukewarm; he said leaving the issue to the states was the best idea, while Franken said the amendment would write discrimination into the Minnesota Constitution.
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May 19, 2011
Northland's News Center: U.S. Senate Rejects Offshore Drilling Expansion
The United States Senate rejected on Wednesday a Republican proposal to expand offshore drilling in U.S. coastal waters.
The bill would have created more offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico, and off the coasts of Virginia and Alaska.
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Northland's News Center: US Senator Franken: Killebrew was anchor of franchise
US Senator Al Franken gave his thoughts about the death of Twins legend Harmon Killebrew.
Family, friends and fans will have an opportunity to bid farewell to Harmon Killebrew on Friday at a funeral and memorial service for the Hall of Fame slugger. The Killebrew family and the Minnesota Twins announced plans for the burial and public remembrance of the all-time great, who passed away Tuesday from the effects of esophageal cancer.
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May 18, 2011
MinnPost.com: Franken bill would block mandatory arbitration clauses in cell phone contracts
In response to a recent Supreme Court case upholding mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer agreements, like cell phone contracts, a group of Democratic lawmakers including Sen. Al Franken have introduced legislation that would largely reverse that decision.
Franken's bill would prevent forced arbitration clauses in civil rights, consumer and employment cases, thus allowing consumers to always have a court option in disputes.
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May 17, 2011
Huffington Post: Air of Inevitability Escaping From AT&T's Takeover of T-Mobile
There was a notable hissing sound emanating from Capitol Hill at the end of last week. It was the air being let out of AT&T's trial balloon, "The Inevitable." Thanks to some aggressive questioning from the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, particularly Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken ( both D-MN), it quickly became clear that there are lots of problems to the $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile that AT&T either hadn't counted on, didn't want to deal with or thought would simply be overlooked.
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May 16, 2011
Star Tribune: The festering foreclosure mess
May's grim headlines have confirmed what Minnesota property owners already sensed: The state's housing market remains in a tailspin even as economy slowly recovers.
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Fox 21: Governor's Opener a Grand Time in Grand Rapids
Fishing is a tradition in Minnesota, and part of that tradition is going out for the Governor's Fishing Opener.
"It's the spirit of Minnesota that brings us all together as Minnesotans to have fun together," said Gov. Mark Dayton.
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New York Times: Gutting Class Action
The Supreme Court's 5-to-4 vote in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion is a devastating blow to consumer rights. By upholding the arbitration clause in AT&T's customer agreement requiring the signer to waive the right to take part in a class action, the court provided other corporations with a model of how they can avoid class actions. It gave companies even more power when it also ruled out class-based arbitrations.
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