How to Use cloture in a Sentence

cloture

noun
  • Rounds voted against cloture but did not vote on final passage.
    — al, 13 Dec. 2021
  • In other words, about 1 in 4 have been subject to a cloture vote.
    — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The Senate’s answer for the last hundred or so years has been the cloture vote.
    — Jay Cost, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The most common results for a cloture vote are 52 and 53 ayes.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 May 2017
  • One benchmark is the number of cloture motions sought to end debate on an issue.
    — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The cloture motion, which will need 60 votes, is expected next week.
    — NBC News, 4 May 2022
  • But there were never more than a handful of cloture motions per two-year Congress.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 23 Jan. 2022
  • With the vote for cloture having been defeated, the filibuster is still alive.
    — Mitch Edelman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 June 2021
  • Such objections trigger a cloture vote, which then sets off 30 hours of floor debate.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Mar. 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
  • The Senate, however, faces time shortages due to its cloture rule.
    — Gregory Koger, Vox, 17 Apr. 2018
  • At least 60 senators must vote for cloture to end the filibuster.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Those senators blocking cloture should be required to do so by being present and voting.
    — Carl Levin and Richard A. Arenberg, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Manchin went on to discuss the last time the cloture threshold was lowered, in the 1970s.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 16 June 2021
  • If a cloture were filed on Saturday, then, the layover day would be Sunday.
    — Gregg Re, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 5 May 2021
  • 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 one senator objects, a cloture motion, which requires 60 votes, must be filed.
    — Grace Segers, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
  • It is now stalled in the Senate, where the bill has struggled to overcome the 60-vote cloture threshold.
    — Sarah Davis, The Hill, 6 Mar. 2026
  • 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 next immediate step in the Senate will be Friday’s cloture vote.
    — Li Zhou, Vox, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Last August, Sewell’s bill once more passed the House, but the Senate failed to invoke cloture.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 22 June 2022
  • No votes are currently scheduled, but the next step in finalizing the plan will likely be a vote on cloture on the motion to proceed.
    — CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The Senate is scheduled to hold a cloture vote Monday on the new legislation.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 24 July 2022
  • If a piece of legislation lacks the 60 votes for cloture, debate continues.
    — Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 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
  • That would likely involve chopping down the time between cloture and confirmation votes to a fraction of the current time.
    — Al Weaver, The Hill, 3 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 24 May 2023

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