cloture in A Sentence

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    UPDATE: The Cloture vote passed today.

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    The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the Cloture rule.

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    Also note that the vote you linked to was a Cloture vote, requiring a 3/5 supermajority to pass.

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    However, legislation and nominations to the Supreme Court would still need 60 votes to invoke Cloture, end debate and kill a filibuster.

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    Even though the vote requirement for Cloture was reduced to 3/5 of the entire Senate(60 votes) in 1975, in the intervening years, the filibuster has been increasingly used to obstruct legislation.

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    Easier than it sounds, proponents of the nuclear option say that the Senate's rules only require a majority vote to change them(meaning only 51 votes would be required to change the Cloture threshold from 60 to 51).

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    Requiring neither speech, ideology or commitment, in today's Senate if fewer than 60 senators are willing to first vote to stop debate on a bill(Cloture), then one senator, alone, can just make a procedural motion that stops all voting on the bill.

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    The result of much compromise between a minority desirous of keeping some method of checking majority tyranny, a majority desperate to make an end run around a small group of Senate doves, and President will to use his bully pulpit, Rule 22(Cloture) was passed.

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    Therefore, while it should only take 51 votes(50 if the Vice-President voted to break a tie) to pass a bill or confirm a nominee in the U.S. Senate, in reality, because of the threat of a filibuster, in order to limit further debate, the majority must first obtain 60 votes for Cloture on anything even remotely controversial.

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