At the time it was passed by the House, it had a national approval rating of about 51%. It came over here to the Senate. Many people considered it doomed to failure over here because In the Senate, the supporters of the Civil Rights act didn't have nearly enough votes to achieve cloture in the Senate. Cloture is, of course, the. The mechanism currently codified in Rule 22 of the Senate rules that allows the Senate to bring debate to a close. There were 32 votes shy of the supermajority required for cloture. To his great credit, the Senate majority leader at the time, Senator Mike Mansfield, a Democrat, decided that he was not going to give up, even though he was 32 … (1:48:03–1:48:37)
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Asserts that supporters of the Civil Rights Act were 32 votes short of the supermajority needed for cloture in the Senate.
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