Mark Warner actually said...

"you can put as much lipstick on this pig as you want."

"This is the most outrageous action, I think, this crowd has taken on education."

"You can put as much lipstick on this pig as you want. This will be a political albatross for the Republicans."

"For him to be threatened, and literally, there was indication that they received the letter that if he didn't resign on a day last week, by five o'clock, all these cuts would take place."