Here’s a video from yesterday, courtesy of our friends at The Uptake, of Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) speaking to a reception held in his honor at the Hart Senate Office Building after he’d been sworn in.
When speaking of his family, his friends, supporters, and the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, Franken was frequently choking back tears — as he noted, he has a tendency to stop just short of actually crying. And he also got in some nice jokes:
“If I thanked everyone here individually, who helped in this campaign, I would be thanking virtually everybody in this room,” Franken said. “There’s a couple of you who are kind of — just here for the ride. (The crowd laughs.) But, 95% of you in this room had a tremendous amount to do with this victory.”
