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Jack Reed: “If I may say, my understanding is that once cloture is invoked, to move off the 30 hours of cloture cannot be done by a…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2005
If I may say, my understanding is that once cloture is invoked, to move off the 30 hours of cloture cannot be done by a privileged motion, but by unanimous consent.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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