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Invoking Cloture in the Senate (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Feb. 9, 2005
Report Number 98-425GOV
Authors Christopher M. Davis
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

This report discuses cloture, which is is the only procedure by which the Senate can vote to set an end to a debate without also rejecting the bill, amendment, conference report, motion, or other matter it has been debating. A Senator can make a nondebatable motion to table an amendment, and if a majority of the Senate votes for that motion, the effect is to reject the amendment. Thus, the motion to table cannot be used to conclude a debate when Senators still wish to speak and to enable the Senate to vote for the proposal it is considering. Only the cloture provisions of Rule XXII achieve this purpose.