ST. PAUL, MN - NOVEMBER 4: U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken speaks to the crowd during the DFL gathering on November 4, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Senate race between Franken and Sen. Norm Colman was still too close to call. Getty Images logo Getty Images 12 months ago

ST. PAUL, MN - NOVEMBER 4: U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken speaks to the crowd during the DFL gathering on November 4, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Senate race between Franken and Sen. Norm Colman was still too close to call.

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  9. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 28: Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) (L) and Sen. Al Frankin (D-MN) visit before the bill signing ceremony for the FY2010 National Defense Authorization Act in the East Room of the White House October 28, 2009 in Washington, DC. The $681 billion U.S. defense budget bill provides for a 3.4 percent pay increase for members of the U.S. military and included legislation that makes it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation.
  10. BOSTON - AUGUST 29: Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) (C) leaves the John F. Kennedy Library as Sen. Edward Kennedy's casket is transported to the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help for his funeral August 29, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts. Sen. Kennedy, the youngest brother of former President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, died of brain cancer on August 25.
  11. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to the media about the Democratic health care bill on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, in Washington. Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Al Franken, D-Minn., second left, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., listen in the back.
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  13. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 14: Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) (C) walks past Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) (L) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) (R) as they talk with aids during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony on legislation to repeal a federal antitrust exemption for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance companies.
  14. Senate Judiciary Committee member Senator Al Franken, D-MN, attends a hearing on Patriot Act re-authorization September 23, 2009 in the Dirksen Senate Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
  15. Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., left, listen to Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, right, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, before the committee's hearing on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act.
  16. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., left, squeezes past committee member Sen. Al Franken's, D-Minn., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, prior to the start of the committee's hearing on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act.

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