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Northland News Center: Sen. Franken Supports Expanding Personnel at Duluth's 148th Fighter Wing

Duluth, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) The idea of bringing more than 200 active duty personnel to the 148th fighter wing has the support of U.S. Senator Al Franken.

It's part of a new concept called active association, where active duty personnel would be assigned to National Guard bases, the idea being that they would spend money in the community rather than on a military base.

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Minnesota Independent: Franken, Klobuchar vote for middle-class tax cuts, yet bill dies in Senate

The U.S. Senate rejected two bills aimed at extending the Bush tax cuts for the middle class on Saturday after Republicans filibustered and Democrats couldn't get the votes to break it. Minnesota Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar were among those voting to end the filibuster and allow a vote on the tax cuts. An extension of the middle class tax cuts now appears dead in Congress.

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Star Tribune: Klobuchar and Franken register votes on Bush-era tax cuts

Passions ran high in the U.S. Senate's rare Saturday session, but the outcome was no surprise.

U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken joined the vast majority of their Democratic colleagues in a futile attempt to break a Republican filibuster on the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts.

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Alexandria Echo Press: Franken lauds passage of food safety measure

U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) lauded the passage of the Food Modernization Act this week, which included a key provision he championed to improve the traceability of tainted foods.

He said it will ensure that contaminated food can be quickly traced and removed from supermarket shelves.

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AgriNews: Klobuchar, Franken speak at MFU banquet

Klobuchar spoke Nov. 20 at the convention banquet during the 69th annual convention of the Minnesota Farmers Union.

The state is first in sugar beet and turkey production and sixth in honey production, a statistic she learned while working on a honey laundering issue.

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Minnesota Daily Editorial: Comcast's confidence

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., recently wrote to the Department of Justice's head of antitrust issues urging it to prevent the potential merger between Comcast and NBC Universal. He, along with federal regulators, became rightfully upset when Comcast announced who would fill certain management positions if the merger, still under Federal Communications Commission review, was approved. "Comcast may be seeking to indirectly exert managerial and operational control of [NBC Universal]," an act which would violate federal law, the letter warned.

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Los Angeles Times: Filling in the blanks on the FCC's Net neutrality proposal [Updated]

The Federal Communications Commission isn't releasing details of Chairman Julius Genachowski's latest proposal for Net neutrality rules, but staffers provided a couple of revealing clues Wednesday.

First, the proposal doesn't back away from any of the six principles Genachowski laid out in his first Net neutrality speech in September 2009: the "four freedoms" endorsed by the FCC under the two previous Republican chairmen, plus requirements that broadband providers manage their networks transparently and without discriminating unreasonably among the various content sources, service providers and applications.

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The Hill: Franken blasts Comcast in letter to DoJ and FCC

Comcast's alleged violation of net neutrality with regards to Level 3 Communications is evidence the company engages in anti-competitive behavior and shouldn't be allowed to purchase NBC Universal, according to a letter from Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) sent Tuesday.

"Comcast's flagrant willingness to violate net neutrality and engage in apparently anti-competitive conduct — in the midst of two simultaneous federal merger inquiries, no less —trumpets the need to stop this merger, or, at a bare minimum, impose stringent conditions upon it to protect net neutrality and competition in the Internet and media marketplace," wrote Franken in the letter.

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Pioneer Press: Questions with Bob Sansevere: Sen. Al Franken hasn't given up on his Vikings

Sen. Al Franken listened to the first Vikings game on the radio. You know the one: Rookie Fran Tarkenton led a start-up team of upstart players to a victory over the Chicago Bears in 1961. Franken has been hooked on the Vikings ever since.

Franken wrote an editorial last week for the Washington Post about his passion for the Vikings. I talked to Franken on Monday about the Vikings, and he touched on everything from how excited he was to see Brett Favre take a sack in Sunday's victory over the Washington Redskins to how he'd like the state to buy the franchise so the Vikings will never move.

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Fox 9: Franken Praises Passage of Food Safety Bill

WASHINGTON – The Food Modernization Act, a bill to make food safer in the wake of E. coli and salmonella outbreaks nationwide, was passed Tuesday by the U.S. Senate. The passage of the bill was met with praise by lawmakers, including Minnesota Sen. Al Franken and Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

Franken and Klobuchar were both cosponsors of the bill. Franken's work on the food safety bill was inspired by the Almer family, a Minnesota family who lost their mother in 2008 after she ate tainted peanut butter. Tainted peanut products remained in supermarkets for months because the FDA was unable to quickly track or recall the contaminated ingredients under current law.

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