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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I am here to announce today with great pride and great enthusiasm that I will do all I can in the next two years to make this man the next president of the United States,
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The world should know that the members of both parties, in both houses, stand united in this: The full resources of our government will be brought to bear in aiding the search and rescue, and in hunting down those responsible and those who have aided or harbored them,
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The Congress shall have the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.
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I indicated this morning it isn't where you start, it is where you end, ... And it is still my hope and expectation, really, that at the end of the day we are going to have a broad level of support on both sides of the aisle for a resolution that indicates our support for the United Nations effort and our support for the administration's effort in dealing with Iraq.
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If if looks like we're going to face a filibuster, we're going to find the time and find the way to break that filibuster in the United States Senate.
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Forty-four senators have now voted to dismiss the articles of impeachment, ... The president will not be removed from office. For the good of the country and in keeping with the Constitution it is now time to end this trial. We are here not to protect the president of the United States; we were here to protect the Constitution and we have done so faithfully and fully.
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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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I think that there is a great deal of interest in delineating more specifically what the White House would be empowered to do under this resolution, and I think it is also in our interest in insuring that we have exhausted our other options, working with the United Nations, working in a multi-lateral fashion,
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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.