Cloture
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Cloture ends Senate debate, and since 1975 requires three-fifths of the Senate — sixty votes.
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Routine cloture demands raise a bill's effective threshold from a fifty-one-vote majority to sixty.
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Exceptions exist — the Senate has carved out nominations and budget reconciliation.