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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very curious, given this has been under way now for this long.
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When I was accused of being an obstructionist, there was a corresponding, a very significant increase in the number of issues that my family and I had to deal with. And I worry about that,
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We're going to bump the session now until Dec. 5, ... The feeling was there was just too much uncertainty swirling around both Washington and the campaigns to make the session productive.
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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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So those two actions have apparently at least given us the impression (that the mail safety issue is being addressed. Again as I say, we can't really make any direct connection between any of these actions, but no new cases of illness have been reported,
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given the circumstances, the environment, the sense that we were responding to 9/11, and all of the urgency that was created by the rhetoric and cajoling of the administration.
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This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens.
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This may be the first budget in history that wasn't just dead on arrival -- it was dead before arrival.
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If we can't even figure out how it was that they enacted the threats or moved through that attack, and if we can't evaluate why we were as vulnerable as we were -- if we can't evaluate how it was the last 9/11 happened -- how is it that we can prepare for the next one?
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That cozy, permissive relationship has to end, and he in large measure has orchestrated that over he last 18 months,
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This is the toughest thing we've had to do since impeachment. It's really heavy lifting.
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I ... welcome our new president elect in a most heartfelt and sincere way, ... We will wipe the slate clean, begin anew with recognition of many challenges ahead. Bipartisan work is ahead.
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If we completed the count, there is little doubt you'd be ahead, ... In order to win, you have to get the votes. We think you've got the votes.
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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,