The idea that Senator Byrd, the late, great Senator Byrd, when he was extraordinarily ill, had to be forced to come to the floor to provide a 60th vote, or that the Senate was frozen in the period after his death and before Senator Goodwin came in, just does not make a whole lot of sense to me as a way to operate.
Durbin criticizes the Senate's operational issues related to voting thresholds.
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