cloture


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a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body

terminate debate by calling for a vote

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La cloture, haute de 6,5 metres, reste surmontee de barbeles tranchants qui causent des blessures pouvant etre mortelles, et que le nouveau gouvernement du socialiste Pedro Sanchez s'est engage a retirer.
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Netanyahu a rappele que la construction de la cloture electronique erigee le long de la frontiere avec l'Egypte etait presque terminee.
attempts by a Senate majority to invoke cloture on presidential nominees
But the number loosely corresponds to the number of Senate cloture motions--which cut off debate and require a supermajority of 60 votes for approval.
Charles Grassley (R-Ia.), fell short of the 60 votes required for "cloture," which would have brought S.3 up for a vote.
The cloture vote--the only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill and thereby overcome a filibuster--was 55-43, short of the 60 votes needed to thwart the filibuster.
AgJOBS supporters attempted to push their measure forward by invoking "cloture," thereby limiting the debate that has stalled the measure, bringing it up for a vote.
The Senate voted 44-43, largely along party lines, against invoking cloture, the formal term for cutting off further debate on a bill.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) has decided not to use the so-called "nuclear option" to force the Senate to rewrite its rules for invoking cloture on judicial nominees.
As the Black brothers explain: "Before the Senate adopted a cloture rule in 1917, southern Democrats could use the tradition of unlimited debate to force the withdrawal of any legislation that challenged the region's institutions of white supremacy.