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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My leadership allows me to get a lot done for my home state.
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One of the responsibilities of his job is to increase the confidence in this country about the importance that our country is placing on homeland security, that we understand its complexities and the difficult challenges we face, ... But if he can't be an advocate before Congress, it's hard for me to understand how he can be an advocate before the country.
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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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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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I cannot recall a time when the gap between the demands we place on our soldiers and the thanks we offer them once they return home has been wider.
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I'm very disappointed and somewhat surprised that there has been that kind of activity this early, ... It certainly violates the spirit of the agreement that we just all agreed to last week.
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information that would lead anyone to believe that there is a higher threat level today than there has been for some time.
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indicated that he's not really looking for a victory. He just wanted to have a debate.
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In 1981 ... I sat in the House chamber when another new president talked to the American people about stimulating the economy,
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Economic strength is not measured in profit statements, but in jobs,
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the best we can get under these circumstances.
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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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They have to do a lot more than tell people that the responsibility is now on their shoulders.
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There was a sense I had from the very beginning that this was in part politically motivated, and they were going to maximize the timing to affect those who were having some doubt about this right before the election,