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The 91st United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. , from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1971, during the final weeks of the presidency of Lyndon Johnson and the first two ...
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A second motion for cloture on September 29, 1970, also failed, by 53 to 34. Thereafter, the Senate majority leader, Mike Mansfield of Montana, moved to lay the proposal aside so the Senate could attend to other business. [27] However, the proposal was never considered again and died when the 91st Congress ended on January 3, 1971.
Senator Tim Wirth reading an issue of Roll Call in 1991. Roll Call is a newspaper and website published in Washington, D.C., United States, when the United States Congress is in session, reporting news of legislative and political maneuverings on Capitol Hill, as well as political coverage of congressional elections across the country.
Between the 1917 (when cloture was introduced to the Senate) and year 1975, cloture required the support threshold of two-thirds of senators present and voting. From 1975 until 2017, the threshold needed to invoke cloture for Supreme Court confirmation was three-fifths of all senators duly chosen and sworn-in (60 senators, if there was no more ...
On the Senate side, John Thune (S.D.) and John Cornyn (Texas) have fought a two-man battle for months, and now face a challenge, supported by boldface names, from Rick Scott (Fla.).