Senator McConnell claimed that Senator Warren "impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from Alabama [Senator Sessions]" by reading historical public statements opposing the 1986 nomination of then-U.S. Attorney Sessions for a federal judge position, written by Coretta Scott King and Senator Ted Kennedy. After a party-line vote of the whole Senate, the Republicans ordered Warren to sit down and not take part in the rest of the debate. The move attracted widespread attention, far more than Warren's original speech had been expected to, and popularized the phrase "Nevertheless, she persisted" as an expression adopted by the feminist movement. A number of Warren's Senate Democratic colleagues repeated her remarks and quotations over the following day without formal objection from Republicans. References External links [ Rules of The United States Senate] 19 Articles containing video clips