Franken's First Order of Business: Cosponsoring Employee Free Choice

July 9, 2009

New Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) didn't waste any time and signed on as a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act just hours after he was sworn in.

"As of about a half an hour ago, I became the cosponsor of my first piece of legislation in the Senate. It's something called the Employee Free Choice Act," Franken told a union group.

Franken said his membership in four unions gave his family the opportunities that all working families deserve, like health care and retirement security. "Unions built the middle class in the country," he said. Senate champions like Franken are exactly what working families need to get the Employee Free Choice Act passed.