Quips aside, it sounds like it was easier to revoke the rule that barred (candidates who committed bestiality and candidates were on either side of sex work) than to split the rule in two and keep the animal ban but drop the sex work ban.

Disclaimers: Sex work is work, human trafficking is bad, animals can't consent, fie on Sen. Kennedy for saying that Republicans nitpick Democratic appointees, and don't trust this bug eyed freak about anything.