Something very strange happened in the Senate a few days ago.

I've covered the Senate for a few years now and you get intimately familiar with all

of the various ways that it is dysfunctional and broken.

So when something actually passed on a random Tuesday afternoon that people care about, I

was immediately suspicious.

Paul McLeod is a reporter with BuzzFeed News.

So I started looking into it and found exactly what I expected, which is that something

kind of had gone wrong and that in fact many senators that I talked to last week had no

idea that this was about to happen until it was already done.

In case you didn't hear, the United States Senate unanimously decided to make daylight saving

time permanent.

How that happened and whether or not it's a terrible idea ahead on today's plan.

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This gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little row bike and I remember it was all like.

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