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Cloture (UK: US: / ˈ k l oʊ tʃ ər /, [1] [2] also UK: / ˈ k l oʊ tj ʊər /), [3] closure [4] or, informally, a guillotine, [4] is a motion or process in parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end. The cloture procedure originated in the French National Assembly, from which the name is taken. Clôture is French for ...
Louis Lépecq de La Clôture (12 July 1736 – 5 November 1804) was a French surgeon and epidemiologist. His work consisted mainly of a 15-year observation of the relations between climate, geography and pathologies in Normandy .
The first cloture vote occurred in 1919 to end debate on the Treaty of Versailles. Although cloture was invoked, the treaty was then rejected against the wishes of the cloture rule's first champion, President Wilson. [25] During the 1930s, Senator Huey Long of Louisiana used long filibusters to promote his populist policies.
Using his power to invoke cloture — a process limiting debate and setting a 30-hour window before a final vote must be held ... D-Va., and Garret Graves, R-La., the bill was passed by the House ...
Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741, Beaucaire – 1824, Montpellier) was a French physician and naturalist. [1] He was the son of Guillaume Amoreux, also a physician and an inventor of surgical devices. [2]
A filibuster can also be ended by a cloture vote, which requires a certain percentage of senators to agree that a speech should be ended. At the time of Thurmond's speech, the threshold for cloture was a two-thirds majority. Thurmond holds the record for the longest solo filibuster, but longer filibusters have been carried out by groups of ...
2002: La Lève by Jean Audureau, musical direction, reading by the students at the Cannes Regional Acting School (ERAC). 2004: Paradis (un temps à déplier) ( Paradise (Time to Unfold) ) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, Théâtre National de la Colline (Paris), Comédie of Caen, New York (Dance Theater Workshop), Bonlieu-Scène nationale d ...
Hungary–Austria border near Sopron, Hungary.. The removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria occurred in 1989 during the end of communism in Hungary, which was part of a broad wave of revolutions in various communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe.