Date: September 30, 1997
Subject: Fiscal 1998 District of Columbia Appropriations
Description: Motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the Coats (R-IN) amendment that would allocate $7 million in fiscal 1998 for educational scholarships to allow low-income kindergarten through 12th grade students from the District of Columbia to attend private schools or public schools in the Virginia or Maryland suburbs.
Result: Cloture Motion Rejected, 58-41
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