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
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 have a real problem with regard to Social Security and Medicare,
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We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.
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We don't know what effect this will have yet. We do know that it poses some serious questions regarding our relationship with our allies, with Russia and with China, that we're going to have to consider very, very carefully,
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We don't know yet whether laws were broken, but there must be enforcement of the law and if the laws were broken someone needs to go to jail,
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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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We therefore expect more say on how the Senate is run, and that includes everything from deciding what bills are debated on the floor, what goes into conference reports, to deciding committee chairs and ratios, and assigning committee staff and office space,
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We've finally gotten rid of the deficit, and they're hell-bent on bringing it back,
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We've got to rise to a higher level,
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We're still troubled by the CBO analysis that we're using Social Security trust funds, at least $19 billion,
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would almost exclusively go to the wealthiest Americans.
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Unless we address this with fiscal stimulus that will give us more confidence than we have today, these problems will compound.
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There is no erosion of that support, ... There is extraordinary belief that the vice president and Senator Lieberman have conducted themselves in a way that makes us very proud.
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There is a great deal of common ground here as we consider our priorities. I'm hopeful that we can work together to accomplish as much as possible in the short time that we have,