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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There's a little bit of chutzpah in there, and a whole lot of ambition.
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This may be the first budget in history that wasn't just dead on arrival -- it was dead before arrival.
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This is the whole ball game for John McCain legislatively,
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This is the toughest thing we've had to do since impeachment. It's really heavy lifting.
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This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens.
There's a recognition of the extraordinary vulnerability we see economically with all the airlines,
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Even with some of the more troublesome ? and potentially illegal ? details omitted, I still raised significant concern about these actions.
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Everybody has to give. We understand that. I hope they understand that. The less time there is, the more give there has to be, it seems to me,
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That report is now a month overdue, ... We don't yet know what the administration's official position is as a result of their unwillingness to share a report with us.
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Economic strength is not measured in profit statements, but in jobs,
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(They are going to) send another stimulus bill over here and jam us? ... Well, that isn't going to work. You need 60 votes to get something done here. The only way we are going to get something done, to ensure success in the next 72 hours, is to help ... laid-off workers.
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They are the victims of terrorists just as those who died on September 11,
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They want to pull the bill in a clandestine way. They want to be able to pull the bill with our fingerprints on it. And we're not going to give them that opportunity.
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They've walked out on the talks. They've walked out on unemployed workers, and they've walked out on America's economy and that is an outrage,