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Cloture: Its Effects on Senate Floor Proceedings (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Jan. 24, 2001
Report Number 98-424
Authors Stanley Bach, Government Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

By invoking cloture, the Senate votes to impose a limit on how much longer the Senate will consider a question that is pending before it. That question may be a bill, resolution, amendment, motion, conference report, nomination, or other matter of legislative or executive business. Once cloture is invoked on a question, that question is to remain the business of the Senate until the Senate disposes of it. In the meantime, the Senate can consider other business only by unanimous consent.