Date: October 15, 1986
Subject: Death Penalty
Description: Dole (R-KS) motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the Dole motion to concur in the House amendment to authorize $1.7 billion for drug interdiction, eradication, education and treatment efforts, and to increase penalties for certain drug offenses, with an amendment to make several modest changes from the House amendment. Opponents of the death penalty had refused to allow a vote on the bill until that provision was removed.
Result: Cloture Motion Rejected, 58-38
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