Immigration's Minnesota Nice, Sen. Al Franken, Helps Small Bus...

Sen. Al Franken,D-Minn., Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and five other Democratic Party U.S. Senators sent a secret memorandum to former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Schulman in February 2012, to learns if his investigators planned to ...

Sen. Franken to SEC on Credit Rating Industry: 'There Must Be Reform' Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, May 14 -- The office of Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., issued the following news release: Today, during a special roundtable discussion held by the ...

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., has asked the U.S. Department of Energy to investigate the steep increase in Minnesota gas prices over the past few weeks. Gasoline industry officials say regional gas prices have jumped 80 cents over the past month ...

One way of avoiding another financial crisis is correcting the conflict of interest inherent in how the credit rating agencies work, says Sen. Al

(Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- Today, U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) pressed for legislation to help ensure that the federal government is doing everything it can to bring affordable high-speed Internet access ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Agriculture Energy Coalition today expressed support for legislation introduced by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) to reauthorize Farm Bill Energy Title programs and provide robust mandatory funding. The Coalition also ...

A wealthy Minneapolis finance executive appears poised to enter the race against first-term Democratic Sen. Al Franken. In an email earlier this week, a private real estate company solicited assistance in finding a campaign headquarters for Lazard ...

When they were performing on "Saturday Night Live" three decades ago, Al Franken, Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy surely didn't expect they would ever be streamed on computers and phones. In fact, they probably would have made fun of the idea. But it ...

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) attacked climate deniers with a Cheetos metaphor on the Senate floor on Monday, saying those who take money from big coal and also reject global warming should be ignored. "If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a ...