How To Use Cloture In A Sentence
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In parliamentary procedure, cloture (pronounced/ˈkloʊtʃər/KLOH-chər), also called closure and sometimes a guillotine, is a motion or process aimed at bringing debate to a quick end.
Think Progress » McConnell’s Faulty Logic: A Cloture Vote To Begin Senate Debate Actually Means A Vote To End It
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The reason the republicans are fighting against cloture is because it's the only chance to stop the Dems from enacting their hyper-partisan agenda.
Democrats slam GOP as party of 'fear' in health care debate
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So, you see, what the Dems want, by filing cloture, is to stop debating whether to debate the bill, and start debating the bill itself.
Think Progress » McConnell’s Faulty Logic: A Cloture Vote To Begin Senate Debate Actually Means A Vote To End It
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It allowed the body to invoke “cloture” to close off debate, but it set a high standard: It required a two-thirds supermajority of senators present and voting—generally sixty-seven votes.
The Good Fight
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It was only in 1917 that the Senate adopted Rule 22, establishing a procedure by which a supermajority could invoke cloture and end a filibuster.
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cloture the discussion
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He filed a cloture motion to end the debate and put the nomination to a vote.
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The nominal function of cloture is to have full, informed debate before casting a simple majority vote.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “It May Be Clever, but It Is Not Constitutional”
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What happens if a motion for cloture is “vitiated” or there is “no action”?
Matthew Yglesias » Filibuster Panel Tomorrow
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Or, if Republicans filibuster and force Reid to file cloture (which requires two days to "ripen" into an actual vote) demand their 30 hours of post-cloture debate, it will pass Saturday.
Wonkbook: FinReg to pass; Fed to sit; Reid's climate deal; Dems lose rec
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Do you really meed me to gather together all the various times centrist Dems have said that they view a vote for cloture as equivalent to a vote for the bill?
Matthew Yglesias » Who Hates the Public Option?
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And then, Biggie turns the leaf and achieves a kind of artifical cloture right on the eve of his assassination.
Who Else Seen the Leprechaun Say “Haaaaay!”?
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Why not give the VP the right to provide the 60th vote when cloture is at hand or limit debate to 720 hours (1 Month)?
Think Progress » White House Signals That It Will Fight Back Against GOP Abuse Of Filibuster
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On Tuesday, the cloture vote on the bill was 69 to 31.
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The fast track bill will be called in the Senate only when the White House knows it has the 60 votes necessary to invoke cloture.
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So any vote against cloture is now an “attempted” filibuster that justifies actual filibusters of all subsequent nominees or, worse, anonymous holds, regardless of whether the “attempt” had a plausible chance of success or was merely a symbolic protest with no likelihood of actually interfering with a nomination?
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Lithwick’s Lament
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I don't think it actually bwcomes a "litigable" issue until the house and senatge conference report is being debated in the senate, and someone moves for cloture with a claim that a 51 vote "yea" will do the job because the issue under debate is subject to the "reconciliation of house and senate differences over an item of budgetary impact".
Wheeling In The Cots: A Winter Snow Emergency--And An Absentee Lieberman--Is Complicating Democrats' Health Care Push
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Senate Republicans will press for a cloture vote tomorrow.
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Cloture would fail and then Lott would “more in sadness than in anger” withdraw the measure.
Matthew Yglesias » Filibuster Chart
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I believe Nate had a post a while back pointing out that when there are 98 Senators, the threshold for cloture is only 59.
Matthew Yglesias » The Deal with Judd
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Previously, dilatory tactics were out of order only after cloture had been invoked.
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The Senate, by precedent, has ruled such quorum calls dilatory, after cloture.
The Volokh Conspiracy
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The ad suggests that if Obama wins the presidency and the Democrats have enough members to invoke cloture, the Democratic president’s proposals could pass through the Senate with minimal debate.
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Four Democratic Senators have announced that they will vote in favor of a cloture motion, and at least one more is believed likely to do so.
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To end debate in the Senate and force a vote requires a successful motion for ‘cloture,’ which takes 60 yeas to pass.
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A cloture motion failed, and the nomination was withdrawn.
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The trick for the dems will be to convey the importance of the factual situation regarding cloture abuse ... and in large part that meas getting the media on board.
Think Progress » White House Signals That It Will Fight Back Against GOP Abuse Of Filibuster
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There, He washed you with his own precious blood, clotured you with the spotless robe of innocence, adorned you with the gifts of grace, and adopted you as his own child.
The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus
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I may have to modify my opinion that abuse of cloture is constitutional during consideration of legislation.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Marshall Field v. Clark Preclude a Challenge to “Deem and Pass”?
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Seeing us achieve cloture is a new, exciting thing!
On a Sunday, the Senate Votes Yes on a Lands Bill - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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If so … I think that Democrats should be careful to frame this in the following way: a vote for cloture is a vote that recognizes the right of the American people to hear a frank debate about health care reform.
Think Progress » McConnell’s Faulty Logic: A Cloture Vote To Begin Senate Debate Actually Means A Vote To End It
