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| | TIME.com: Person of the Week: Tom Daschle -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) |
 | | Tom Daschle stood at the front of the Democrats’ stage, bathed in a dim light as he vowed almost soundlessly to fight the Republican encroachment on Democratic sacred cows like debt reduction and saving Social Security. |
 | | Daschle, who has served in the Congress since 1978, is known as a preternaturally calm presence, whose passion for liberal hallmarks like public education and health care never overrides a sense of Midwestern civility. |
 | | In 1978, Daschle was elected to the House of Representatives, and in 1986 he moved into the Senate. |
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