<span>Cloture is rarely invoked in the Senate because it is difficult to achieve the required three-fifths vote (60/100), because the cloture would be increasingly invoked and would lose its power, and because it curtails the democratic process.
Cloture is a parliamentary procedure that is used to close the debate, and it’s currently used to cut off filibusters.</span>
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Gerrymandering is a way of drawing legislative distribution in order to give one party more seats in proportion to the share of votes that the candidates have. A bipartisan committee is the best solution to the problem of gerrymandering because if it was solved by the party in power when they next lost power, the other party would reverse their action.
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The section of the Constitution falls under expressed powers related to trade and borrowing, as it referrers to Taxes, Duties, Imposts, Debt etc. the section also refers to regulate commerce with foreign nations, within the several states and the Indian tribes.
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<span>In the excerpt, it is suggested that the Speaker has much more influence in the House than the Senate majority leader has in the upper chamber. In the expert, in fact, the former Speaker John Boehner is exercising this influence to pass a bill to lift the debt ceiling before he leaves Congress.</span>
