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
counted florida unusual votes
There's nothing unusual about the way the votes are being counted in Florida right now.
attack
I take this personally. It's not only an attack on me, it's an attack on where I'm from,
effort explicit force purpose ties
makes more explicit the purpose of the effort and ties down what it is we're authorizing the use of force for.
coalition draft possible resolution supported
I'm going to do as much as possible to draft a resolution that can be supported by the broadest coalition of senators. We have, in my view, come some distance. We've got a long way to go before that can be achieved,
earn trip
where I come from would earn a trip to the woodshed.
mode
We're in a very unpredictable mode at this point,
We have, in my view, come some distance, ... We got a long way to go before that can be achieved.
problem regard security social
We have a real problem with regard to Social Security and Medicare,
almost
would almost exclusively go to the wealthiest Americans.
basis bipartisan security social table taken trust
The only thing taken off the table -- I think on a bipartisan basis -- is the utilization of the Social Security trust fund,
adding bush concerns favor money talk
We have concerns about adding to the Bush plan. They need to come talk to us. We favor getting out money immediately, but we need to see the details,
dangers entire gas inherent throughout using
there are too many dangers inherent with using gas throughout the entire complex.