How to Use cloture in a Sentence

cloture

noun

• Manchin went on to discuss the last time the cloture threshold was lowered, in the 1970s.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 16 June 2021
• The most common results for a cloture vote are 52 and 53 ayes.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 May 2017
• The Senate’s answer for the last hundred or so years has been the cloture vote.
  — Jay Cost, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
• In other words, about 1 in 4 have been subject to a cloture vote.
  — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
• Last August, Sewell’s bill once more passed the House, but the Senate failed to invoke cloture.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 22 June 2022
• The vote on Wednesday will be a cloture vote, limiting the debate on the bill and paving the way for a final vote.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2021
• The first vote on track to take place in the Senate will be a cloture vote to break a GOP filibuster, which will require 60 votes to succeed.
  — Clare Foran, CNN, 9 Dec. 2021
• The Senate’s cloture rule requires 60 members to end debate on most issues and move to a vote.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• The cloture motion, which will need 60 votes, is expected next week.
  — NBC News, 4 May 2022
• To end rampant usage of filibusters, the Senate came up with the cloture process to end debates on a bill.
  — Bernadette Kinlaw, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2021
• If a cloture were filed on Saturday, then, the layover day would be Sunday.
  — Gregg Re, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
• In 1917, the Senate adopted the cloture rule, enabling two-thirds of senators present to vote to end debate.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
• With the vote for cloture having been defeated, the filibuster is still alive.
  — Mitch Edelman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 June 2021
• One benchmark is the number of cloture motions sought to end debate on an issue.
  — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
• But there were never more than a handful of cloture motions per two-year Congress.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 23 Jan. 2022
• In a cloture vote last week, the Senate supported the proposal 80-17.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2020
• The next immediate step in the Senate will be Friday’s cloture vote.
  — Li Zhou, Vox, 4 Oct. 2018
• The Senate ended the debate on the exemption bill by voting 25-6 for cloture.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 2 Nov. 2021
• The Senate is scheduled to hold a cloture vote Monday on the new legislation.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 24 July 2022
• The Senate, however, faces time shortages due to its cloture rule.
  — Gregory Koger, Vox, 17 Apr. 2018
• In this way, cloture was understood as a process that provided an efficient way to get to a vote faster.
  — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 14 June 2021
• Such objections trigger a cloture vote, which then sets off 30 hours of floor debate.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018
• Rounds voted against cloture but did not vote on final passage.
  — al, 13 Dec. 2021
• The Senate will then vote on cloture, which would limit debate, with a motion to proceed on Wednesday.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 15 July 2021
• This is largely because as of June 5 Mr. Trump’s nominees had faced 101 cloture votes.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 June 2018
• The vote came after a four-and-a-half hour filibuster that ended when the Senate approved a petition for cloture, or to end the debate.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 24 May 2023
• Forty-five of 49 Senate Democrats (92 percent) voted against cloture and, thus, to shutter the government.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
• House rules allow for ending a filibuster if there are enough votes for cloture, a petition to end debate and force a vote.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 5 May 2021
• Schumer on Tuesday also filed cloture on the bill, setting up the 60-vote threshold filibuster vote for later this week.
  — Trish Turner, Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2022
• If at any time the minority cannot muster 40 votes, debate ends, cloture is invoked, and the bill can be passed by the votes of a simple majority.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 8 Sep. 2020

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