Posted on 12/24/2005 8:46:13 PM PST by davidosborne
S14240 December 21, 2005 Did you see that? Did you see how it devastated the land, and all the plant life is now dying because it was inundated in saltwater? The earthquake in my State did that. I saw one town disappear. I saw a third of my city, Anchorage, disappear. You have to have had that experience to understand how I felt when I went to New Orleans.
You people didn’t believe it. Many of you said I did this for political reasons, just a crass thing, pick up some money and give it away for votes. I never asked one of you for a vote. I talked to some of you about how you should vote, but I never went to you and said: You have to vote for me. You wouldn’t be voting for me; it was voting for the people who would have been helped. This has been the saddest day of my life. It is a day I don’t want to remember, and I am sorry to see it come to an end. Because I am drawing the line now with a lot of people I have worked with before. I really am. I can’t put in my mind the amount of time, the days I have spent with you working on your problems, and to know you said about me the things you said in the last 2 months. I say goodbye to the Senate tonight. Thank you very much. NAYS—45 Alexander Allard Allen Bennett Bond Brownback Bunning Burns Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Cornyn Craig Crapo Dole Domenici Ensign Enzi Frist Graham Grassley Hagel Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Kyl Landrieu Lott Martinez McConnell Murkowski Roberts Santorum Sessions Shelby Stevens Sununu Talent Thomas Thune Vitter Voinovich Warner NOT VOTING—7 Chafee Corzine DeMint Dodd Gregg Harkin McCain
The concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 74) was agreed to, as follows: S. CON. RES. 74 Resolved in the Senate (the House of Representatives Concurring), That, in the enrollment of the bill (H.R. 2863) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes, the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall make the following corrections: Strike Division C, the American Energy Independence and Security Act of 2005 and Division D, the Distribution of Revenues and Disaster Assistance. Mrs. BOXER. I move to reconsider the vote. Mrs. FEINSTEIN. I move to lay that motion on the table. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. N O T I C E Incomplete record of Senate proceedings. Today’s Senate proceedings will be continued in the next issue of the Record. VerDate Aug 31 2005 06:36 Dec 22, 2005 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 0637 Sfmt 8633 E:\CR\FM\G21DE6.082 S21DEPT1 jcorcoran on PROD1PC62 with SENATE
>>>Did Ted Stevens RESIGN from the Senate?<<<
No.
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I have heard it rumored based on this floor statement and the vote to pull ANWR from the Defense bill.. Did not know if any of ya;all heared the same rumor?
He threatens to every time he doesn't get what he wants. In the case of ANWR, I am with him 100%. He also cried and whined about his bridge to nowhere being cited as a ridiculous example of pork. It seems to be his m/o to cry and threaten to resign. Somehow, I think his threats are empty, but hey, ya never know..
I thought his choice of words were pretty strong... I wonder what the 7 that were absent have to say...
Unfortunately, no.
He threatened to resign in rather melodramatic fashion when his bridge to nowhere got the ax a couple weeks ago...instead, the money got allocated without the earmark for the bridges to nowhere
One should at least stay for spite's sake and be the lingering thorn in peoples' sides...
He seems to me like one of those people that make a big deal out of leaving an online forum because of something they disagree with only to come back 2 weeks later, making a spectacle out of both non-events.
I hope he follows through on some of the things he said about ANWR though.
I guess time will tell
Damn baby loses a vote, and cries then threatens to quit - LET HIM!
Murkowski can appoint his daughter.
Stevens is such a whiner it's unbelievable he is actually a United States Senator. Waah, waaaah, waaah, you cancelled my pork, I'm going to go home! And I suppose if he resigns there will just be another Murkowski dug up to replace him. The Senate is so depressing compared to the House.
ANWR is fine. His last retirement threat was over the Bridge to Nowhere. Threats to resign are apparently his method of gracefully accepting defeat.
ANWR is NOT pork..
"ANWR is pork?"
The bridge was considered by many to be a "pork barrel project", not ANWR.
HA! HA! HA! NO.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ya'll wish.
Merry Christmas!
(thanks for the giggles!)
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