Star Tribune: Franken keeping a low profile in Senate – mostly
Posted in News Clips on October 17th, 2009So far, the list of Al Franken’s bills in the U.S. Senate reads more like the stuff of everyday life than legislative legend.
There are measures on school lunches, household products, service dogs for wounded vets. On his 100th day in office last week, he helped unveil a bill to extend country-of-origin labeling regulations to dairy products.
“A lot of these are common-sense things,” Franken said while sitting beneath a photo of his late friend and mentor, Sen. Paul Wellstone. “A lot of these are about improving people’s lives. That’s what Paul said politics is all about.”













