"Speaker Pelosi's national energy tax is a job-killer. It will punish responsible American families with crushing taxes that will suffocate our economy."

-- U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner, of Ohio.

"Every vote is going to help."

--Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, on the election of Al Franken to the Senate.

"I'm not going to waste this chance."

--Franken, at a victory celebration.