Tom Harkin actually said...

"I think that is an excellent idea. I like the idea that it would be in a stepwise fashion reduced to a simple majority over the course of about a week or so."

"This is not a radical idea. It is the constitutional option."

"I would hope that we get away from that sort of tit for tat kind of thing."

"I do not think one of those votes has cost anybody an election yet, but I guess we go through that exercise."