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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says that Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss asserts he wants Sen. Ted Stevens to win in Alaska and then he'll vote to remove him from the U.S. Senate.

“First of all, I hope Senator Stevens is successful in being re-elected. And assuming that he is, I intend to support any motion to remove him,” Chambliss said of his fellow GOP senator.

Chambliss faces a runoff election against Jim Martin because neither candidate got more than half the vote in the election.

Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, also said he would vote against Stevens, the newspaper said.

Ensign said there would be votes to remove Stevens from the GOP conference and from the Senate.

“If he actually wins the election, then you have to expel him twice. And so it’s probably better to let Alaska — it’s probably going to take a while to count all the votes up there — let that take place, then after the first of the year deal with it,” Ensign said, the Atlanta paper reported.

This is a reversal of the position Ensign put forward in a fundraising letter after the election. He claimed that liberals are getting an “army of lawyers” to try to “steal” the Senate seat of Stevens, which “they could not win outright on Election Day.”

Before the election, Ensign also called on Stevens to resign.