claim: says of a failed cloture vote on nominating chuck hagel for defense secretary: "this is not a filibuster."
author: john cornyn
evidence_1: feb 15, 2013 ... thursday night, a vote was called to invoke cloture on chuck hagel's nomination  to become secretary of defense, and thus move to a final confirmation vote. the  cloture vote failed. only 58 senators voted yes, short of the 60-vote cloture  threshold, with sens. thad cochran (r-miss.), susan collins ...
evidence_2: charles timothy "chuck" hagel is an american politician who served as a united  states senator from nebraska from 1997 to 2009 and as the 24th united states  secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015 in the obama administration. a recipient  of two purple hearts while an ...
evidence_3: dec 30, 2013 ... however, the very first failed 60-vote threshold cloture motion of the 113th  congress appears to have laid the groundwork for the seismic changes to come.  want insight more often? get roll call in your inbox. it was feb. 14, on the  nomination of former sen. chuck hagel, r-neb., to be defense secretary.
evidence_4: nov 21, 2013 ... john cornyn, r-texas, claimed that democrats have exaggerated the level of  opposition to obama's nominees, using the case of defense secretary chuck  hagel as an example. "this is not any attempt to kill this nomination. this is not a  filibuster," sen. john cornyn, r-texas, said during floor debate in ...
evidence_5: feb 15, 2013 ... yesterday, republicans filibustered the nomination of former gop senator chuck  hagel to be secretary of defense. democrats voted unanimously to allow a ... it's  not surprising that hatch is eager to insist that he's never voted against cloture of  a judicial nominee. after all, in 2005 senator hatch insisted ...