October 26, 1989
(Senate)
(Specter (R) Pennsylvania)
The Administration supports Senate passage of S. 1798, but will seek amendments in the House to conform the procedures for imposing the death penalty to those proposed in the President's "Comprehensive Violent Crime Control Act of 1989."
George Bush, Statement of Administration Policy: S. 1798 - Death Penalty for Terrorists Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/327976