40. In January The Senate rejected a proposal to create a bipartisan commission.
This would have fast tracked the commission's recommendations. The proposal fell by a vote of 53 to 46. Sixty votes were required for passage.
Assuming the Senators would later line up similarly, the commission's recommendations would be passed by an up-or-down vote that would require only 51 votes. But under that same assumption, their reforms would not get by a Senate filibuster that requires 60 votes. This is my point, which was pretty much on display in the article I linked in my last post.
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