Sentences with phrase «making cloture»

However, some Senators feared that if this effort succeeded, that would only make it easier to amend the rule again, making cloture still easier to invoke.

However, some Senators feared that if this effort suceeded, that would only make it easier to amend the rule again, making cloture still easier to invoke.

This effectively makes the cloture always require a simple majority to invoke.

Not exact matches

If they lose a handful of progressives on the cloture vote then they could need 10 or so Republicans to make up the difference.

Republicans hope that with that vote — and the one that made her the 60th vote for cloture on the Affordable Care Act — McCaskill ensured that the political sky will indeed fall on her this November.

In early 1975, at the beginning of the 94th Congress, Senators sought to amend the rule to make it somewhat easier to invoke cloture.