cloture

The measure is simply put on hold until the next cloture vote.

He said no other bill had ever been the subject of a cloture vote more than five times.

The Senate, however, voted cloture and then passed the bill.

The Senate voted 73-21 for cloture and 77-20 to pass the bill.

Last year he lost seven cloture votes on a campaign financing bill.

Cloture was not filed on a single Bush nominee in his first year.

A second motion for cloture on September 29, 1970 also failed, by 53 to 34.

Brown was one of five Republican senators to vote for cloture on the jobs bill.

Under the cloture motion, the Senate is limited to 30 hours of debate.

Their efforts succeeded on the evening of May 23, 2005, one day before the cloture vote.

Cloture was invoked, which limited debate to a 30 hour period.

The vote on the cloture motion had been scheduled for May 21, 2012.

He is also famous for advocating the change in the rules of cloture.

This was the Senate's first effort to add a cloture provision to its rules.

If, as seems likely, the cloture vote fails, two courses are possible.

The bill was defeated through being denied cloture on the Senate floor.

Cloture was not invoked to have a final vote on this bill in the Senate.

The result is to force the majority to go through the entire cloture process twice in a row.

From 1968 to 2002, Senate leaders tried cloture 17 times for judicial nominees.

The petition for cloture needs 60 votes to be adopted.

The cloture vote failed on September 28, 1998 by a margin of 53-38.

Technically, you need 3/5 of the senate to force cloture, which works out to 60 when we have 100 senators.

"Until we've had the cloture vote, any talk of a compromise is premature."

In order to get a vote, the Senate leadership will have to round up 60 votes for cloture.

"I voted in favor of cloture to have a debate, and we were successful."