Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) challenged Sen. John Thune (R-SD) in a startlingly tense exchange yesterday, slamming Thune’s apparent looseness with the truth by saying, “We’re not entitled to our own facts.”
Yesterday afternoon Thune took to the Senate floor with a chart that tried to illustrate how the Senate health care reform bill supposedly proposes tax increases immediately while “many of the benefits don’t start getting paid out for another 1,479 days.”
Franken was having none of it. Franken took issue with Thune’s chart, rising to the floor minutes later to challenge its assertions. What followed was an unusually tense exchange between Thune — fourth in the Senate GOP leadership — and the freshman Franken.
Here’s video of the back and forth:
You can watch a longer, less edited version of the Franken-Thune showdown here.
