He would have except for three important factors:
He and every other senator values his own life time self-perpetuating appointment to the senate above every other consideration including the very survival of Our Beloved FRaternal Republic;
His party held -- and still holds a majority in that place and;
The fearsome and loathsome Hitlery Rotten-KKKli'toon and her every-bit-as-fearsome-and-loathsome Jiang-Gang cohorts still hold [Today: March 2002!] the more than three thousand "Raw Information" FBI Files they stole in 1993 -- and in every subsequent year until their squalid squatting and bemanuring of the offices normally occupied by Our Nation's executive branch of government was ended.
Ah, incase you missed it, the GOP is not in the majority.