How many Senators does it take to pass a bill in the Senate?

[Eric J in MN]

From
http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-fi-indecent19may19,0,190597.story?coll=cl-tv-features

The Senate late Thursday unanimously approved a tenfold increase in broadcast indecency fines — boosting the maximum penalty to $325,000 per violation.

The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act, sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), passed with little notice in a nearly empty chamber after an unusual parliamentary maneuver by Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) that assured approval unless any senator objected.

...Brownback's bill normally would be required to go through Stevens' committee. But Frist on Wednesday "hotlined" the bill, which meant it would be unanimously approved by the full Senate unless anyone objected before adjournment Thursday.
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Can one Senator pass a bill by himself? Two? Three?

[napi21]

1. There was another bill that passed and Peter King was the only Senator

therre! I can't recall what it was but it was about 6 moths ago. I assume, because of that, it takes a majority of the Senators present.

[NJ Democrats]

2. No 51 I think

[valerief]

3. Not as many as it takes to screw in a lightbulb. n/t

[TomInTib]

4. 'A majority of members present' is how the rules read.

1-0 is enough.

I don't know how to find the rule, but that is what I remember.

Frist is an effing viper (no offense to vipers).

[Generic Brad]

5. 50 Republicans and Joe Lieberman

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. Any Senator COULD have stopped this bill by simply objecting

But no one did. Joe Lieberman and Russ Feingold took exactly the sam action. They did nothing.