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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The tax break the president is said to be proposing is the wrong idea at the wrong time to help the wrong people, ... The plan the president is considering would almost exclusively go to the wealthiest Americans.
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We are asking the President to nominate a new SEC chairman ... someone who understands the importance of avoiding even the appearance of conflict of interest ... especially now, with confidence in the market still so fragile,
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The president had a very aggressive agenda in the first two years, an agenda that required much more unity than we were able to achieve.
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The president began to make his case to us today,
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The president and his advisers must accept that continued legal jousting serves no constructive purpose,
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The president will veto it, and there are ample votes to sustain the veto. So, that was an exercise in total futility,
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I am here to announce today with great pride and great enthusiasm that I will do all I can in the next two years to make this man the next president of the United States,
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The president was very candid as he laid out what he expects to talk about tonight, ... And I think it's fair to say that there is a great deal of mutuality in our agendas.
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The president told me about it, and I agree, ... It's unfortunate, but there's no choice. Some people just can't resist talking.
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It sounds as if the president is going to call for one where he gets to appoint each of the members and dictate the design and ultimately the circumstances under which they do their work.
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No, I'm not interested in vice president or the cabinet.
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It was as close to a tie as history has ever seen, ... I fully support and accept the results of this election, let there be no mistake about it. But we all know that the vice president received more than 300,000 votes and the issue is: Now, where do we go from here?
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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.
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This is an ongoing process, ... As we have said several times now, the president needs to make case not only to us but to the American people and to the international community, and that effort has now begun.