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Publication Date: November 2003
Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
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Research Area: Government
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Abstract:
Paragraph 2 of Senate Rule XXII, also known as the “cloture rule,†was adopted in 1917. It established a procedure, amended several times over the intervening years, by which the Senate may limit debate and act on a pending measure or other matter.