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Record 1 2011-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language
  • Meetings and Assemblies (Administration)
DEF

A procedure forbidding further adjournment of debate on any motion or on any stage of a bill and requiring that the motion come to a vote at the end of the sitting in which it is invoked.

CONT

Mr. Frist's proposed solution is to change the procedure under which debate ends and a vote is taken, a process known as "cloture. "He would amend Senate Rule XXII so that the number of votes needed to end a filibuster would fall from 60 to 57 to 54 to 51 on successive votes. This would preserve the essential purpose of the filibuster--which is to give the minority a chance to make their case--but not let them abuse the system by holding confirmable nominees hostage forever. Georgia Democrat Zell Miller made an even more ambitious reform proposal in the Wall Street Journal in March, when he called for new cloture rules for nominations and legislation--not just nominations, as Mr. Frist proposes. Mr. Miller's proposal was in turn based on one in 1995 by Democrats Tom Harkin and Joseph Lieberman.

Key term(s)
  • cloture rule

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
  • Réunions et assemblées (Administration)
DEF

Procédure qui a pour effet d'empêcher qu'un débat soit de nouveau ajourné et de provoquer un vote à la fin de la séance en cours. On peut appliquer la clôture à toute question à l'étude à n'importe quelle étape d'un projet de loi.

CONT

Le programme de travail type d'un congrès comporte notamment : ouverture (ou inauguration), élection du bureau [...], sessions de travail plénières (en assemblée) ou en commissions [...], adoption du document final, et clôture.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Lenguaje parlamentario
  • Reuniones y asambleas (Administración)
DEF

Procedimiento cuya finalidad es evitar que un debate sobre una moción o sobre una etapa de un proyecto de ley sea aplazado de nuevo, y exigir que la moción sea sometida a votación al final de la sesión en curso.

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Record 2 1998-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bankruptcy
DEF

A plan put forward to creditors by a debtor seeking extension of time for settlement and/or reduction of debt.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Faillites
DEF

Plan proposé par un débiteur à ses créanciers en vue de retarder le règlement de ses dettes, d'en réduire le montant ou d'opérer un réaménagement de ses dettes.

Spanish

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