We Will Also Never Bring

Literally Minutes Before The Senate Cast Its Vote, The Administration Sought To Add The Words 'in The United States And' After 'appropriate Force' In The Agreed-upon Text. This Last-minute Change Would Have Given The President Broad Authority To Exercise Expansive Powers Not Just Overseas-where We All Understood He Wanted Authority To Act-but Right Here In The United States, Potentially Against American Citizens. I Could See No Justification For Congress To Accede To This Extraordinary Request For Additional Authority. I Refused.

As The Representatives Of The People We Are Here To Declare That Our Resolve Has Not Been Weakened By These Horrific And Cowardly Acts.

Senators, Like Everyone Else, Want To Feel A Part Of This Decision-making Process. They Want To Feel Included.

[i Am] Saddened, Saddened, That This President [bush] Failed So Miserably At Diplomacy That We're Now Forced To Go To War. Saddened That We Have To Give Up One Life Because This President Couldn't Create The Kind Of Diplomatic Effort That Was So Critical For Our Country.

People Were Concerned About National Security, And That Precluded Us From Having The Opportunity To Break Through On The Issues That We Cared Most About - The Economy, Education And Health Care.