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• I don't think it actually bwcomes a "litigable" issue until the house and senatge conference report is being debated in the senate, and someone moves for cloture with a claim that a 51 vote "yea" will do the job because the issue under debate is subject to the "reconciliation of house and senate differences over an item of budgetary impact". Wheeling In The Cots: A Winter Snow Emergency--And An Absentee Lieberman--Is Complicating Democrats' Health Care Push
• If so … I think that Democrats should be careful to frame this in the following way: a vote for cloture is a vote that recognizes the right of the American people to hear a frank debate about health care reform. Think Progress » McConnell’s Faulty Logic: A Cloture Vote To Begin Senate Debate Actually Means A Vote To End It
• Seeing us achieve cloture is a new, exciting thing! On a Sunday, the Senate Votes Yes on a Lands Bill - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
• I may have to modify my opinion that abuse of cloture is constitutional during consideration of legislation. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Marshall Field v. Clark Preclude a Challenge to “Deem and Pass”?
• There, He washed you with his own precious blood, clotured you with the spotless robe of innocence, adorned you with the gifts of grace, and adopted you as his own child. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus
• The trick for the dems will be to convey the importance of the factual situation regarding cloture abuse ... and in large part that meas getting the media on board. Think Progress » White House Signals That It Will Fight Back Against GOP Abuse Of Filibuster
• A cloture motion failed, and the nomination was withdrawn.
• To end debate in the Senate and force a vote requires a successful motion for ‘cloture,’ which takes 60 yeas to pass.
• Four Democratic Senators have announced that they will vote in favor of a cloture motion, and at least one more is believed likely to do so.
• The ad suggests that if Obama wins the presidency and the Democrats have enough members to invoke cloture, the Democratic president’s proposals could pass through the Senate with minimal debate.