Name-calling, finger-pointing, refusing to cooperate. Grownups in the U.S. Senate act like such babies, why not let an actual baby join them?

Sen. Tammy Duckworth on Monday became the first senator to give birth while in office. Now she is pushing to change Senate rules so she can bring her new daughter to the Senate floor with her.

Duckworth argues that the rule changes are needed so she can keep voting while also caring for her baby.

“For me to find out that there are issues with the United States Senate’s rules where I may not be able to vote or bring my child onto the floor of the Senate when I need to vote because we ban children from the floor, I thought: Wow, I feel like I’m living in the 19th century instead of the 21st, and we need to make some of these changes,” Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois, said during a CNN interview.

Surely the “pro-life” Republicans who run the Senate — and aren’t shy about telling pregnant women what they can and can’t do with their bodies — won’t object to a newborn joining them … right?

Duckworth’s proposed rule change would allow any senator to bring a baby onto the Senate floor within the first year of the child’s life.

“Whether you’re breast-feeding or not, or you’ve adopted or something, you should be able to bring that child on to the floor and continue to do your job,” Duckworth told CNN.

Duckworth’s service to her country — she lost two legs while flying a helicopter in the Iraq War — should already allow her to take her baby, or anyone else, anywhere she pleases.

But Duckworth’s proposal is aimed at more than just changing rules written by those who never had to balance breastfeeding and casting Senate votes. Fixing the Senate’s rules would send a larger message that all American workplaces must be more accommodating to working mothers.