Attempted Senate cloture votes, 96th-122th Congress
by The Brookings Institution on Nov 21, 2013 | Views: 383 | Score: 9
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In their Vital Statistics on Congress report, Brookings Senior Fellow Thomas Mann and AEI Resident Scholar Norman Ornstein provide data on the number of attempted Senate cloture votes taken from 1979 to 2012, the 96th to 112th Congresses. The chart below demonstrates the average attempted cloture vote taken by party when that party was in the minority.