Hello there. It is Eric Erikson here. The phone number 877-973-725. I got to bring this up to you real quick because I find this hilarious.

Yesterday at the same time, the second hour of the show, we talked about the daylight saving time legislation, passing the

Senate by unanimous consent. BuzzFeed News now has the answer as to how changing time

could get through the Senate by unanimous consent. Turns out a number of senators oppose making daylight saving time permanent.

One of those is Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas who favors standard time for a lot of reasons.

Senator Chris Coons of Delaware as well, not necessarily a fan.

Several other senators have come forward and said they weren't particularly fans of it either.

Senator Chris Coons says he's not sure whether he's opposed or not, but he's just not happy with it, the way it went.

So how did it happen?

Turns out staffers in the United States Senate, Democrat and Republican,

chose not to inform their bosses that it was up for a vote.

Oh, the Senate staff got in the way.

Senator Tom Cotton staff in particular chose not to tell him.

So here's what happens.

If you want to try to pass something by unanimous consent in the Senate,

you have to send everyone a notice and tell them that I want to put this on the floor of the Senate

and ask for unanimous consent.

So Marco Rubio did that on Monday.

He sent in a unanimous consent request.

It was shared with all of the senators.

Typically what happens is the legislative directors of each senator,

review the requests for unanimous consent to see if there's anything they want to

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