41.   One senior GOP senator, who asked not to be named, said five senators supported the filibuster because Dole had asked them to.

42.   One senior Republican senator said that he and his colleagues had concluded that Clinton was so weakened that they were free to dismiss his proposals.

43.   One senior Democratic senator, now in his fourth term, summed up the situation this way, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

44.   Phil Gramm, the hard charging unabashedly conservative senior senator from Texas, chuckles when he hears the various rumors about his political future.

45.   Say what you will about the senior senator from Texas, he was a master at raising money and votes.

46.   Richard Lugar, the senior senator from Indiana, deserves better treatment.

47.   Senior senators from both parties, applauded word of the agreement, though many raised concerns about the apparent lack of specifics.

48.   Several senior Republican senators pledged their support for Hormel, whose nomination died last Congress because conservative senators blocked a floor vote.

49.   Schumer was joined in raising a hand to victory with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the senior senator from New York.

50.   Sometime this month, John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, plans to do just the kind of thing that drives fellow Republicans crazy.