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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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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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,
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We're going to hit this economy awfully hard in the coming months, ... We will be laying out a plan that is immediate, that is targeted directly to the middle class and that doesn't exacerbate the debt.
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What we're offering is real jobs, real opportunity and real prosperity -- a plan that works for our country,
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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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The only thing taken off the table -- I think on a bipartisan basis -- is the utilization of the Social Security trust fund,
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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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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,
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It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.
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We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.
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There are times when we have occasions when we have to make our individual judgments, and that's what he did and I have no disagreement with that, ... He made his best judgment, and I'm making mine.
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