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LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« on: October 05, 2018, 01:59:23 pm »
What is a cloture vote?

Cloture is basically a vote to go ahead on a vote, a procedural oddity of the Senate that allows a majority leader to “push past a recalcitrant minority,” as Pew Research Center explains. Cloture is a “is a blunt tool for managing the Senate,” as Brookings Institution’s Sarah Binder put it.

Traditionally, 60 senators must vote for a cloture motion to pass, but Democrats, in 2013, and Republicans, in  2017, invoked the “nuclear option,” which allows a simple majority of just 51 senators to approve it (even though official Senate rules still say 60 votes are needed).

Cloture votes are now more prevalent

In the 2013-14 Congress, after Barack Obama won his second term, there was a massive rise in cloture motions. They more than doubled to 252 from 115 in the previous session. In 2013-14, a Republican minority led by McConnell  filibustered dozens of Obama nominees, and Democrats used cloture votes to push past them.

https://qz.com/1413228/what-is-a-cloture-vote-and-why-is-mcconnell-is-using-it-for-the-kavanaugh-vote/
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2018, 02:13:25 pm »
They won't say if they have the votes... 9999hair out0000
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2018, 02:16:42 pm »

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Brett Kavanaugh: "Never before have we had a nominee display such flagrant partisanship and open hostility at a hearing. And never before have we had a nominee facing allegations of sexual assault."
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2018, 02:18:20 pm »
'after Barack Obama'....the gift that keeps on giving.

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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2018, 02:18:24 pm »

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Politically corrupt FBI and DOJ officials are everywhere: Ford's FBI Friend, Monica McLean, Pressured Witness To Modify Testimony and Statement...
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2018, 02:21:19 pm »

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BREAKING: @SenatorCollins will vote YES on CLOTURE.
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2018, 02:21:57 pm »
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Sen. Susan Collins will vote yes on the procedural vote this morning, but won’t announce her final vote on the nomination until 3pm this afternoon,
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2018, 02:24:24 pm »
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Politically corrupt FBI and DOJ officials are everywhere: Ford's FBI Friend, Monica McLean, Pressured Witness To Modify Testimony and Statement...

This whole effort to take Kavanaugh down is a criminal Conspiracy orchestrated by Hillary Clinton's former press secretary Brian Fallon!

https://www.independentsentinel.com/brian-fallon-threatens-senators-kavanaugh-reveals-the-plan/
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2018, 02:32:32 pm »
A Senator does not require a cloture vote in order to give his/her consent.  Just sayin'  .  .  .
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2018, 02:34:10 pm »
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Brett Kavanaugh: "Never before have we had a nominee display such flagrant partisanship and open hostility at a hearing.

And never before have we had a nominee falsely accused of rape and sexual assault.
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2018, 02:38:56 pm »
Sen Flake..yes
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2018, 02:42:05 pm »

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If the Senate fails cut off debate…game over for Kavanaugh. They are stuck. There is a bipartisan filibuster of the nomination and McConnell will be unable to draw debate to a close.
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2018, 02:44:50 pm »
Murkowski...a NO

Manchin..Yes
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2018, 02:45:58 pm »
Murkowski owes Trump...damn her No vote
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2018, 02:47:16 pm »
Cloture passes
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« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2018, 02:48:51 pm »
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« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2018, 02:50:23 pm »
Thanks for starting this thread, @mystery-ak.   

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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2018, 02:51:54 pm »
Murkowski owes Trump...damn her No vote

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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2018, 02:51:55 pm »


I guess this worked
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2018, 02:51:58 pm »
Murkowski owes Trump...damn her No vote

I guess Murkowski wasn't satisfied with the FBI report.  Flake and Collins were.

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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #20 on: October 05, 2018, 02:52:41 pm »
Collins will announce how she will vote tomorrow at 3pm
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #21 on: October 05, 2018, 02:52:55 pm »
Murkowski owes Trump...damn her No vote

I hope she pays politically. I guess DiFi intimidation worked. The old crone must have something big on Murkowski.
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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #22 on: October 05, 2018, 02:53:08 pm »
51 ayes

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Re: LIVE THREAD>>Cloture Vote
« Reply #23 on: October 05, 2018, 02:53:40 pm »
Now we need a 'cloture vote' on Mueller. He is trying to turn this into a career with no end. It is very well past time for Congress to vote to end this insanity.
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« Reply #24 on: October 05, 2018, 02:56:17 pm »
Murkowski is deserving of a very special kind of disgust.

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