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 think that it's so critical when you make a request to the Congress to authorize and appropriate $38 billion for homeland security, somebody ought to come up and explain just how you're going to spend it, ... Those issues are going unanswered in large measure because Mr. Ridge refuses to testify. We just have to find a way hopefully without the use of coercion to have those questions answered for the record.
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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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That is probably the key factor in support of any tax measure, whether we have that $35 billion locked in or not,
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But now a memo forecasts administration plans for billions of dollars of cuts to America's veterans, schools, health care, homeland defense, worker-training programs and medical research,
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Whether we come up with a solution or not is an open question. Members on both sides of the aisle are wanting to be careful about things we write here.
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When I was accused of being an obstructionist, there was a corresponding, a very significant increase in the number of issues that my family and I had to deal with. And I worry about that,
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What we're offering is real jobs, real opportunity and real prosperity -- a plan that works for our country,
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We're going to hit this economy awfully hard in the coming months, ... We will be laying out a plan that is immediate, that is targeted directly to the middle class and that doesn't exacerbate the debt.
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We're going to bump the session now until Dec. 5, ... The feeling was there was just too much uncertainty swirling around both Washington and the campaigns to make the session productive.
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Were it not for the fact that we demonstrated good faith today, we would not be able to demonstrate good faith when challenges and difficult circumstances arise.
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We have said form the beginning that if he would work with us we could reach a bipartisan compromise, ... He chose not to, and he got beat.
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We have no choice but to revisit the question on other bills. Especially given the relationship between guns and schools these days, I think it's a natural assumption that one could make that there could be some amendments which will be offered,
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We're in a very unpredictable mode at this point,
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where I come from would earn a trip to the woodshed.