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
case effort needs ongoing people president several
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.
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This is an issue that's very important to South Dakotans, ... We hope we can find a balanced bill.
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This is a time for our country to be united, even though we're divided on other matters,
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This isn't reform, ... This makes a mockery of McCain-Feingold.
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The most important thing for us right now is to ensure that the country's security is back, ... Once that feeling of confidence is back, we think the economy will come back a lot in and of itself.
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The most important piece of this package is unemployment and health benefits for unemployed workers, ... Nothing more important.
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spend a lot of time attacking the attackers.
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So those two actions have apparently at least given us the impression (that the mail safety issue is being addressed. Again as I say, we can't really make any direct connection between any of these actions, but no new cases of illness have been reported,
actions
Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.
question stand strongly
As a veteran, there is no question that I stand strongly with the troops,
america esteem holds lower opinion
a world opinion that now holds America in lower esteem than ever before.
policies vowed
All along, the administration vowed their policies would be painless,
coercion
coercion is not his first option, but it's an option.
debt early revisit trillion
a revisit back to the early 1980s -- $3 trillion of debt later.