President Chun then halted debate over ground rules for general elections due later this year.

The Senate halted debate on a military bill to work on a resolution criticizing the ruling.

In successive procedural votes, senators failed to halt debate on two competing proposals.

Or they could allow debate to proceed and then signal their intention to filibuster, forcing Republicans to come up with 60 votes to halt debate.

Without them there would not be enough votes to halt debate.

Under Senate rules, it takes 60 votes to halt debate, and all 56 Democrats are expected to vote in favor of that motion.

The vote was 53 to 45, 7 votes shy of the 60 needed to halt debate.

Mr. Dole's effort to halt debate then also failed to attract even a simple majority.

(It takes 60 votes to halt debate in the Senate.)

France did not halt debate on the resolution; it delayed a vote.