But the cloture vote did show that more than 50 percent of senators favor rebuking Gonzales.
You guys went ahead -- you went through two or three I think cloture votes.
The Republican leader insists that Senator Reid file cloture, which starts a 30-hour clock.
But among those who joined Reid and Bryan in opposing cloture was Bob Graham, D-Fla.
On the cloture vote, all 53 of the Republicans present supported limiting debate on the waste bill.
"Without objection, on behalf of the majority leader, I send a cloture motion to the desk, " Cornyn said.
The tally of cloture votes reflects only a small fraction of senatorial obstruction.
Cloture was not filed on a single Bush nominee in his first year.
The other one is a bill offered by Senator Harkin, which would have some sort of sliding scale of cloture.
Dirksen would eventually bring all but a handful of his colleagues with him to support both cloture and the bill.
Byrd (D-W.Va.), the king of Senate procedure, passed away Monday, just when the Senate probably needs his vote for cloture.
In the end, there were 71 votes for cloture, representing big majorities of both parties, and the bill's passage was assured.
In the cloture vote, he received a majority of the U.S. Senate.
And, David, this looked like a scene of some excitement on the floor of the Senate as this cloture vote was being taken.
"In effect, a vote to invoke cloture is a vote to kill tobacco, " Bryan said during floor debate on the nuclear waste bill.
Cloture was invoked last night, 89 to 5, but Republicans are still forcing the Senate to burn time in a blatant delay tactic.
The Senate took up I think two days ago a cloture vote on our small business lending initiative that the House had previously passed.
On 21 occasions, unanimous consent was blocked in order to -- and cloture had to be invoked to get somebody a vote -- 21 occasions.
But a surprising number of Democrats abstained or voted against the bill (eight in total) leaving the number voting for cloture at 52, eight votes short.
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It is disappointing that a cloture vote is even necessary for someone as clearly well-qualified as Ms. Halligan, who has bipartisan support from lawyers and law enforcement.
The Senate preferred not to, because Republicans could require several more time-consuming cloture votes, of the sort that consumed the chamber in the days leading up to Christmas.
We've had scores of pieces of legislation in which there was a filibuster, cloture had to be invoked, and then ended up passing 90 to 10, or 80 to 15.
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Why then on Earth would it take a cloture vote to get additional lending to go to community banks in order to get it to small businesses to create jobs?
For that matter, it is frequently echoed even by some of their own office-holders, frustrated by the party's inability to command the necessary cloture-imposing and veto-proof majorities on Capitol Hill.
First, tomorrow the United States Senate will hold a cloture vote on the nomination of Caitlin Halligan to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit.
And Senator Reid still has to file a cloture.
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It can be argued that the acceptance of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by the nation at large was directly related to the size and the bipartisan composition of that historic cloture vote.
As one influential congressional staffer observed in the wake of today's failed cloture motion on S.1873, Senate Democrats have twice been given a chance to provide the votes needed to begin defending America.
"With little chance of cross-party agreement, legislating became guerrilla warfare, marked by cloture motions and filibusters, legitimate devices in the senatorial arsenal but hardly the path to well-crafted legislation to attract bipartisan support, " she wrote.
Mr. Carney said there will be a cloture vote on the nomination of Caitlin Halligan tomorrow, 726 days after her nomination, and strongly urged the Senate to support an up-or-down vote for this well-qualified nominee.
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