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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A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,
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as consistent or regular as I think they should be.
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The way to resolve it is simply for the SEC to release the file so that there isn't any more outstanding question, that there isn't any doubt about what happened and why,
This administration has to do a lot better,
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This across-the-board cut has nothing to do with ridding ourselves of waste, ... This goes to muscle and bone of programs.
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They don't want a $1.6 trillion dollar tax cut. Now they want a $3.2 trillion dollar tax cut. I don't know why they don't just give the entire federal budget away,
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We are here in complete unity with our New York and New Jersey friends, ... We support you, and we're here to continue to provide that support whatever it may mean. That support will be here for whatever length of time it takes.
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There are those who have expressed concern that this has become politicized, ... I think you have to ask the tough questions to get the right answers.
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There is no doubt that if we have lost that much money in retirement accounts, we lost that much money in the stock market itself, we could lose similar amounts of money in projected surpluses.
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We have a real problem with regard to Social Security and Medicare,
We have, in my view, come some distance, ... We got a long way to go before that can be achieved.
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We are going to have to keep the effort to find some mutual agreement at a later date. We're not going to do that today, ... We certainly have to work to extend unemployment benefits.
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very curious, given this has been under way now for this long.
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We have not been briefed, and we have not been given any new intelligence information,