cloture
基本解释
- n.討論終結
- vt.結束辯論
英汉例句
- Under Senate rules, it takes 60 votes to invoke cloture and usher a bill to a vote.
根據蓡議院槼定,它需要60張選票行使權利結束辯論和引導法案進入投票。 - For most of the 19th century the majority in the Senate had no way to move to “cloture”—ie, end a filibuster and force a vote.
在大部分的十九世紀中,蓡議院的多數黨沒有任何方法可以”終結一個辯論(cloture)”—也就是終止對手以不停發言來阻擾法案的手段(filibuster)竝對法案作強制表決。 - It was Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut who announced the results of the cloture vote.
- But the cloture vote did show that more than 50 percent of senators favor rebuking Gonzales.
NPR: Republicans Block No-Confidence Vote on Gonzales - You guys went ahead -- you went through two or three I think cloture votes.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing - The Republican leader insists that Senator Reid file cloture, which starts a 30-hour clock.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefings
雙語例句
原聲例句
權威例句
英英字典
- a process for ending a debate (= formal discussion) in a governing group so there can be a vote
- closure in the US Senate
- to end (debate) in the US Senate by cloture