Tom Daschle
Tom Daschle
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Daschleis a policy advisor, lobbyist, former U.S. Senator from South Dakota, and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 December 1947
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We hope that they will also announce that they will release all of the information that the 9/11 commission has requested, ... Certainly having the testimony is good, but having all of the information would be even better.
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Whether it's in trade, whether it's in a more permanent presence, whether we can find ways to assist in the Kashmiri dispute, I think that there are ways in which the United States can continue to show its gratitude and to be the player it needs to be in this region and certainly with the government of this country,
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You almost need to take a nitro-glycerin tablet just to read these numbers,
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The president had a very aggressive agenda in the first two years, an agenda that required much more unity than we were able to achieve.
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The president began to make his case to us today,
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The president and his advisers must accept that continued legal jousting serves no constructive purpose,
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The president will veto it, and there are ample votes to sustain the veto. So, that was an exercise in total futility,
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We are interested in keeping the focus on Iraq, not on other countries in the region that may also pose a threat or a concern to the United States, and I think that is one of the issues we want to raise with the administration as we continue our discussions,
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We are dismayed and we are angered at the news of WorldCom today,
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Those who are in government have an urgent responsibility to prove to the American people that our government can still work for them.
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We're not supportive of getting away from the basic Medicare construct,
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We have an anticipated debt of $400 billion this year, and that's before the first dollar in whatever military action may be required will be expended, ... Without a question, this will exacerbate the debt and complicate our fiscal circumstances beyond anything, I would say, in history.
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We know that there are still some in the Senate who think that they may have a chance to keep this bill from becoming law, ... We say to them, 'Look what happened in the House. Opponents in the House used every conceivable argument and excuse, every imaginable ploy. They failed and so will you.'
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We have those issues to resolve. Negotiations are under way. I think on most of them, it's anybody's guess to resolve.