The Senate approved a deal Thursday that will keep the chamber's long-standing 60-vote threshold for halting a filibuster but streamline some of the chamber's more cumbersome procedures.
Largely accepting the recommendations from a bipartisan team of senior senators, Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell won broad bipartisan support for a package of reforms that will streamline operations but leave intact rules that give the minority more rights than in any other legislative body in the world.
"I'm not personally, at this stage, ready to get rid of the 60-vote threshold," Reid said. "With the history of the Senate, we have to understand the Senate isn't and shouldn't be like the House," he added.
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