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Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer of November 16, 1919, reporting the first use of cloture by the United States Senate. In 1917, during World War I, at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, [21] the Senate adopted a rule by a vote of 76–3 to allow cloture to be used to limit debate on a measure. [22]
March 8, 1917: The United States Senate adopted the cloture rule to limit filibusters. March 31, 1917: The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies, which become the US Virgin Islands, after paying $25 million to Denmark. April 2, 1917: World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
On 8 March 1917, during World War I, a rule allowing cloture of debate was adopted by the Senate by a vote of 76–3 [27] at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, [28] after a group of 12 anti-war senators managed to kill a bill that would have allowed Wilson to arm merchant vessels in the face of unrestricted German submarine warfare. [29]
The Senate considered the motion to limit debate. Cloture procedures were eventually established in 1917. February 15, 1915 The vice president had ruled that Senator Reed was entitled to move to table a motion to amend Senate Rule XXII regarding limitation of debate and all the amendments to that motion. Senator Lodge appealed the ruling. [99]
March 8 – The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters. March 26 – The Seattle Metropolitans become the first team based in the United States to win the Stanley Cup. March 31 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies, which become the US Virgin Islands, after paying $25 million to ...
In March 1917, the procedure of a cloture vote was introduced to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate as a means of ending debate and proceeding to a vote. [5] Until 1975, cloture required the support threshold of two-thirds of senators present and voting.
In the United States Senate, the nuclear option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the Senate to override a standing rule by a simple majority, avoiding the two-thirds [1] supermajority normally required to invoke cloture on a measure amending the Standing Rules.
The United States Senate adopted the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters at the urging of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, after a group of 12 anti-war senators managed to kill a bill that would have allowed Wilson to arm merchant vessels in the face of unrestricted German submarine warfare. [38]