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 hate to say I told you so, but we told you so,
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I can't imagine that we would pass any bill that would tolerate slipping back into a level of intolerance that would be acceptable in today's society,
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given the circumstances, the environment, the sense that we were responding to 9/11, and all of the urgency that was created by the rhetoric and cajoling of the administration.
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Forty-three percent of their tax benefits go to people earning an average of $900,000, ... We want to provide a cut for families that pay only payroll taxes, who would not be helped under the president's plan.
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Forty-four senators have now voted to dismiss the articles of impeachment, ... The president will not be removed from office. For the good of the country and in keeping with the Constitution it is now time to end this trial. We are here not to protect the president of the United States; we were here to protect the Constitution and we have done so faithfully and fully.
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If the stories in the media over the past week are accurate, the president has exercised authority that I do not believe is granted to him in the Constitution, and that I know is not granted to him in the law that I helped negotiate with his counsel and that Congress approved in the days after September 11.
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There is a great deal of common ground here as we consider our priorities. I'm hopeful that we can work together to accomplish as much as possible in the short time that we have,
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There is no erosion of that support, ... There is extraordinary belief that the vice president and Senator Lieberman have conducted themselves in a way that makes us very proud.
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What I'm going to do is talk to my colleagues a little bit. It was a very helpful briefing, and we were in a position to ask a lot of good questions, ... more to say about it later.
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We've got to rise to a higher level,
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We've finally gotten rid of the deficit, and they're hell-bent on bringing it back,
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We therefore expect more say on how the Senate is run, and that includes everything from deciding what bills are debated on the floor, what goes into conference reports, to deciding committee chairs and ratios, and assigning committee staff and office space,
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to convey our serious concerns about the deteriorating condition of the federal budget and the nation's economy.
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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.