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Following a period as Russell County, Kansas Attorney, he won election to the House of Representatives in 1960. In 1968, Dole was elected to the Senate, where he served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1971 to 1973 and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 1981 to 1985.
In 1984, Dole succeeded his friend Howard Baker (TN-R), as Senate Majority Leader. Elected six times by his colleagues, Dole would serve as Republican leader (Majority and Minority Leader) for twelve years, under three Presidents: Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton.
The PLRA embodied a congressional reaction to “the number of ‘due-process and cruel and unusual punishment’ complaints filed by prisoners” having “grown astronomically– from 6,600 in 1975 to more than 39,000 in 1994.” See 141 CONG. REC. S14,413 (daily ed. Sept. 27, 1995) (statement of Sen. Dole).
The State sued in United States District Court seeking a declaratory judgment that § 158 violates the constitutional limitations on congressional exercise of the spending power and violates the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Bob Dole served in Congress for 36 years. He was the longest-serving Republican leader in the history of the Senate (1985-1996) until this record was broken in 2018. Dole was also the 1996 Republican nominee for president, and former President Gerald Ford’s vice presidential candidate in 1976.
e. The Bayh–Dole Act or Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act (Pub. L. 96-517, December 12, 1980) is United States legislation permitting ownership by contractors of inventions arising from federal government-funded research. Sponsored by senators, Birch Bayh of Indiana and Bob Dole of Kansas, the Act was adopted in 1980, is codified at 94 ...
Supreme Court Case. South Dakota v. Dole (1987) 483 U.S. 203 (1987) Sec. of Transportation Elizabeth Dole. Courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office. Justice Vote: 7-2. Majority: Rehnquist (author), White, Marshall, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, Scalia. Dissent: Brennan (author), O’Connor (author)
