Sentence examples for end debate from inspiring English sources

CLOTURE MOTION A vote to end debate or a filibuster.

At present it takes 60 votes to end debate.

But senators so far have decided against using a rarely invoked procedure to end debate.

Many Republicans assume that the mid-terms will end debate about where the party is heading.

If the Senate is "equally divided" on a motion to end debate, the motion simply fails.

Harry Reid filed a cloture motion last night to end debate on financial reform.

We can measure this inability by looking at cloture votes to end debate.

Mr. Obama did oppose immunity on a key earlier motion to end debate.

Republicans leaders are in no particular hurry to end debate on the bill, which they have criticized harshly this week.

For starters, the Senate could replace the majority's responsibility to end debate with the minority's responsibility to keep it going.

A motion to end debate on the bill, which was postponed from Tuesday, passed 76 to 22 on Wednesday morning.