Richard Durbin actually said...

It makes the Senate not an institution to be respected for its principles, but a dysfunctional institution which apparently is not even comm...

Complaints are everywhere heard that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties...

We are losing a lot of good people, and at the same time, we are finding agencies, critical agencies, that are left headless.

The inability to appoint conferees by unanimous consent was always done. The leader picked the name.