Kangaroo closure is a measure coined as early as 1911 reserved for parliamentary procedure wherein the
chairman or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others.
[Jennings, Sir Ivor. (1969). Parliament. Cambridge UP, 60.] The unselected amendments are each voted on without debate. It was first used in the United Kingdom House of Commons in the battle over the 1909 finance bill. The term is used because the chairman, in essence, "leaps" over certain amendments for discussion.
[Shirur, Rajani R. (1997). World Constitutions. Sterling Publishers, 93.][See W.T. Stead, The Review of Reviews, no. 257, May 1911, p. 428]
The practice is now codified in the UK House of Commons by Standing Order No. 32.[ Selection of amendments]
See also
