Kangaroo closure is a measure coined as early as 1911 reserved for

parliamentary procedure Parliamentary procedure is the accepted rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings of an assembly or organization. Its object is to allow orderly deliberation upon questions of interest to the organization and thus to arrive at the sense or t ...

wherein the

chairman The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the grou ...

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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