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cloture's Usage Examples:

The Senate may end a filibuster by invoking cloture.

As the Republicans held a five-vote Senate majority (55–45) in the 109th Congress, this agreement meant that there would be 62 votes for cloture in the specified cases, ending those filibusters, and only 48 votes for the nuclear option, which would be defeated.

On November 17, 2009, two members of the Gang of 14 – Senators McCain (R-AZ) and Graham (R-SC) – voted against the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of David Hamilton, President Obama's pick for a vacant seat on the Seventh Circuit.

I raise a point of order that the vote on cloture under Rule.

The two nominees who were not specifically guaranteed cloture in the agreement, William Myers and Henry Saad, both later withdrew.

Senators duly chosen and sworn" (currently 60 out of 100) vote to close debate by invoking cloture under Senate Rule XXII.

As noted before, the Gang of 14 deal was instrumental in getting Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito an up-or-down vote, as the votes for confirmation (58 for to 42 against) would not have been enough for cloture.

In most cases, cloture requires the support of three-fifths of the Senate; however.

The last vote on cloture, on June 7, 2007, 11:59 AM, failed 34–61 effectively.

President Barack Obama, voted against cloture for the Don"t Ask, Don"t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 (he did not vote on the bill itself), voted to remove federal.

On October 31, 2013, the motion to invoke cloture was rejected 55–38, with 3 senators.

However, it was filibustered (failed cloture) on Jul 30, 2008, and withdrawn.

Because of the political split in the Senate at the time (55 Republicans, 44 Democrats and one Independent), if six Senators from each party could reach an agreement, these twelve could both forestall the nuclear option and enable cloture on nominees.

Synonyms:

order, gag rule, guillotine, rules of order, gag law, closure by compartment, parliamentary procedure, closure, parliamentary law,

Antonyms:

upgrade, downgrade, snarl, entangle, disorder,