Kangaroo closure is a measure coined as early as 1911 reserved for
parliamentary procedure
Parliamentary procedure is the accepted Procedural law, rules, ethics, and Norm (sociology), customs governing meetings of an deliberative assembly, assembly or organization. Its object is to allow orderly deliberation upon questions of interest ...
wherein the
chairman or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others. The unselected amendments are each voted on without debate. It was first used in the United Kingdom
House of Commons
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. ...
in the battle over the
1909 finance bill. The term is used because the chairman, in essence, "leaps" over certain amendments for discussion.
The practice is now codified in the UK House of Commons by Standing Order No. 32.
Selection of amendments
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See also
* Cloture
Cloture (, also ), closure or, informally, a guillotine, is a motion or process in parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end. The cloture procedure originated in the French National Assembly, from which the name is taken. ...
References
Parliamentary procedure
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