Al Franken could play a giant role in Gorsuch hearings
WASHINGTON It was a half-hour before one of the sparsely attended committee hearings that take place almost every day on Capitol Hill in this case, a session on energy infrastructure so dry it would not merit even the presence of a C-SPAN camera.
But in Al Franken's suite of offices in the Hart Senate Office Building, the man still known best as one of the early stars of Saturday Night Live was going through an intense rehearsal with four aides.
How much, Franken wanted to know, are the Chinese spending on clean technology research? Where do things stand on the University of Minnesota's study of torrefaction, a roasting process that produces better fuel for biomass energy production? And might there be a chance to ask a question about one of his favorite causes, loan guarantees for Native American reservations?
"I just want to keep bringing it up, so they keep hearing it," Franken said, with a trace of a sigh.
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