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Oh they have much more important business to attend to [dripping in sarcasm]...from the Senate Calendar:

S.RES.14
Sponsor: Sen Voinovich, George V. [OH] (introduced 1/7/2003)
Latest Major Action: 1/7/2003 Passed/agreed to in Senate.
Status: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.
Title: A resolution commending the Ohio State University Buckeyes football team for winning the 2002 NCAA Division 1-A collegiate national football championship.
S.RES.16
Sponsor: Sen Bunning, Jim [KY] (introduced 1/9/2003)
Latest Major Action: 1/9/2003 Passed/agreed to in Senate.
Status: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.
Title: A resolution honoring the Hilltoppers of Western Kentucky University from Bowling Green, Kentucky, for winning the 2002 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-AA Football Championship.

On Frist's stance:

When asked about potential abortion-related legislation on NBC's "Meet the Press," Frist said, "We are just beginning sort of all the planning in terms of what particular bills. I think things like partial-birth abortion—and I can tell you as a physician who has been in the operating room for thousands of days and hundreds of thousands of hours, the whole concept of partial-birth abortion offends the sensibilities of me as a physician. It's a rogue procedure. It's not in the medical textbooks. Something like that where we've got not consensus but broad, broad support among the American people, I can see that coming very, very quickly."
He added, "It's an abhorrent, abhorrent procedure that offends the civil sensibilities of every, I think, just about every American."
Frist also said he "[a]bsolutely" supports a ban on both reproductive and therapeutic cloning—opposed by pro-life groups.
About therapeutic cloning, he said, "I am opposed to any time that you create an embryo itself with the purpose being destruction, and that would include the so-called research cloning," adding, "And remember, research cloning is just that, it's experimental. There's been no demonstrated benefit of that to date." He said the Senate would address a cloning ban "at some point."
Tennessee Right To Life