[paul51]

And not leave someone there to see what they were doing?????

Why not. What are they going to do, play with themselves?

[GeorgeW23225]

Well......we're talking about democRATS here. I'm sure that "playing" with themselves is something they do to become party members. :-)

Seriously, I feel better having the GOP Senators in attendance, just to see what these sleazy scumbags were up to. They also could have used the absence of the GOP Senators to try and pull off some obscure, quorum vote. Who knows, maybe they would have declared Algore the President.

Sorry, but I just don't trust the democRATS, all by themselves, in the U.S. Senate.