Talk:Cloture

Speculative claims about future events
If the Democrats obtain 58 or 59 seats in the senate following the United States Senate elections, 2008, moderate GOP Senators Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter, will be heavily lobbied to switch parties in order to provide a 60 vote filibuster proof majority.

This is speculation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by APh8ohph (talk • contribs) 07:23, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Etymology
The etymology gives the French word 'cloture' as meaning 'fence' - is this really the origin? The French word *can* mean 'fence' but it often just means 'closure'. Anyone know for certain? Stevage 23:48, 12 June 2008 (UTC)\

hi

cloture / history US / intro needs help
History A similar procedure was adopted in the United States. This was invoked for the first time on November 15, 1919,[5] during the 66th Congress, to end filibuster on the Treaty of Versailles.[6]

The beginning sentences under Cloture / HIstory for US Senate (several paragraphs into the article on cloture) make unclear reference. The paragraph needs to begin more clearly than "A similar procedure was adopted in the United States". A proceedure similar to what? Canada? Hong Kong? I am not offering to revise this because it seems that the original author best knows what is meant. 172.190.14.204 (talk) 19:54, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Hong Kong
I am not sure why Hong Kong is given as an example. What occurred there is clearly not cloture, but a communist regime preventing debate - without a vote - the direct opposite of cloture.203.184.41.226 (talk) 06:02, 20 March 2013 (UTC)