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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I ... welcome our new president elect in a most heartfelt and sincere way, ... We will wipe the slate clean, begin anew with recognition of many challenges ahead. Bipartisan work is ahead.
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I was able to demonstrate how important it is to be at the front of the line as the leader of, one of the two Senate leaders, when I was actually in the Oval Office and asked President Clinton to take Ellsworth off the base-closing list. He did. He did because I'm leader,
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I think they make a point. They're losing money and in some cases going bankrupt.
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He's been the one who's said we want a kinder and gentler SEC, the opposite of what we should have had, ... We could do a lot better than Harvey Pitt in that position today.
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He's been silent on the issue. He's been unengaged and showing absolutely no leadership. And I think it's critical that he do so as we go into the busiest and most troubling time of the year from a price perspective.
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His words were offensive to those who believe in freedom and equality in America,
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Unless we address this with fiscal stimulus that will give us more confidence than we have today, these problems will compound.
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We may have had differences of opinion about what brought us to this point, but the president is commander-in-chief, and today we unite behind him as well,
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Our goal is to make sure that it's done within the context of fiscal responsibility. We've got to recognize that we didn't get here by accident,
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Our first challenge is to strengthen the economy, the right way,
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Our view is that there has to be some way ... to deal with this matter beyond the question of conviction, and we think censure presents that opportunity and we will be planning to propose that at some point,
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Our bill is a real plan, theirs is a placebo,
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reasonably optimistic that we can come up with a procedural agreement, certainly in the next 24 hours.
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President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.