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Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Avon:
"We have a responsibility to address our nation's challenges and to implement solutions that will put our nation on a new and lasting course for success. Middle class families in Ohio - and across the nation - expect no less. Tonight showed that our nation, finally, is on the right path."

Sen. George Voinovich, R-Cleveland:
"Our nation is facing a catastrophic debt burden and trillion- dollar deficits for as far as the eye can see. I truly believe that President Obama's stimulus bill simply added to our debt without fulfilling the well-accepted stimulus criteria that the funds be timely, targeted and temporary.