Arlen Specter actually said...

It is like a steam kettle. You fire it up, and it is going to come out someplace.

it is inevitable that votes are cast--I am right in the middle of the same procedure--where we do not know what we are voting on because we ...

the way it has necessarily been conducted with the chamber full, that is the occasion when there are more Senators on the floor longer than ...

it is hardly a function of the world's greatest deliberative body