Source: David Hawkings, ROLL CALL, 12/5/21


Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole died in his sleep early Sunday morning, according to a statement from his family. He was 98. The Kansan was the Senate GOP floor leader for 11 years and five months. Dole held the title from January 1985 until June 1996, when he resigned from Congress to focus on being that year’s GOP challenger to President Bill Clinton. Dole was majority leader for the first two years, as well as the last year and a half that he occupied one of the chamber’s front row desks by the center aisle, with eight years as minority leader in between.

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