Children and Families Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety (Ranking Member) Committee on Indian Affairs Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law (Ranking Member) Post-Senate career After his resignation, Franken went into a period of self-imposed isolation and, in May 2019, started The Al Franken Podcast, which is now in its third season. Around the same time, Franken went on tour with a non-comedic show that he did from a podium and with notes. The COVID-19 pandemic put the show on hold, but when clubs reopened, he made unannounced shows at the Comedy Cellar in Manhattan, where he lives. In the fall of 2021, his first post-COVID theater show took place in Northampton, Massachusetts, in front of a friendly audience. The solo show, called The Only Former US Senator Currently on Tour Tour, continued into 2022. Personal life Franken met his wife, Franni Bryson, during his first year at Harvard. In 2005 they moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. They have a son, a daughter, and four grandchildren. Their daughter, Thomasin, has degrees from Harvard and the French Culinary Institute; she is the director of extended learning at DC Prep, an organization in Washington, D.C., that manages charter schools. Their son, Joseph, works in the finance industry. Franken is a second cousin of the actor Steve Franken, known for his appearances in the television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. In 2013, Franken received the Stewart B. McKinney Award for his work fighting homelessness. Franken has said that he "very strongly" identifies "as a Jew—as a pretty secular Jew." He has also said he believes in God. In the summer of 2021, Franken moved back to New York City, settling in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Bibliography Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations (Delacorte Press, 1996) Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency (Delacorte Press, 1999) Oh, the Things I Know!: A Guide to Success, or Failing That, Happiness (Plume Books, 2003) Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (Dutton Books, 2003) The Truth (With Jokes) (Dutton Books, 2005) Al Franken, Giant of the Senate (Grand Central Publishing, 2017) Filmography Electoral