yesterday's cloture vote on the health reform bill has been bugging me. not because i mind the outcome. (i'm glad it passed) rather, what bugs me is that they called it "cloture".
as i understood it, "cloture" is a vote on whether to end debate on a bill and bring it to a vote. yesterday was a vote to begin the debate on the senate health reform bill. it wasn't closing anything. shouldn't that vote, yesterday's kind of vote, be called "opure"?
