Cloture
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Cloture is needed in the U.S. Senate on a controversial bill or nomination in order to close debate and allow a vote on the bill or nomination to occur. If there is no cloture, then debate never ends and the bill cannot become law or the nominee cannot be confirmed.
Explained another way, cloture is the only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter, and thereby overcome a filibuster. Under the cloture rule (Rule XXII), the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours, but only by vote of three-fifths of the full Senate, normally 60 votes.[1]