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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to convey our serious concerns about the deteriorating condition of the federal budget and the nation's economy.
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But readiness costs money, and the federal government has not come to your aid to the degree that it must to fulfill its obligations.
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To support federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is to come down on the side of hope for the millions of Americans suffering from diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to cancer to Parkinson's to diabetes,
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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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It involves greater surveillance. It involves improving the working relationship among federal and state and local agencies. It involves more border control and border opportunities to deal with those involved in crossing our borders,
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I think we have to remember we've got to protect the integrity of the process so that people have confidence in the inevitable outcome at some point, ... This Week.
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I think it undermines the fragile coalition that we have with our allies,
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I think it's wrong. I think it's really wrong because it destroys the institution, ... dangerous precedent.
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I think it's sort of the combination of 'West Wing' and 'Seinfeld.' We meet once a week, but nothing happens,
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I think there is broad support for a regime change in Iraq,
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I think there has to be a debate; there has to be some good discussion, ... There has to be some opportunity for the people to be heard. ... Congress needs to be equal and full partners in this discussion, and ultimately in the decision.
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I support the president's authority to make decisions with regard to clemency and pardons. That is a president's right, ... But I must say I am troubled deeply by the lack of remorse, the lack of empathy for the victims on the part of the Puerto Ricans themselves. And based upon that, I intend to vote in favor of the resolution.
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Whether it's in trade, whether it's in a more permanent presence, whether we can find ways to assist in the Kashmiri dispute, I think that there are ways in which the United States can continue to show its gratitude and to be the player it needs to be in this region and certainly with the government of this country,
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We must prepare for it now. We cannot afford to dig ourselves into a fiscal hole as we did in the 1980s. We cannot afford to return to the fiscal irresponsibility and weakness of times past.