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  Online NewsHour: Newsmaker: Tom Daschle -- September 17. 2002
TOM DASCHLE: Well, what I've said is that there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that the situation warrants greater level of concern with regard to the weapons that we know to exist within Iraq.
TOM DASCHLE: Well, as you know, over the weekend the administration has said that they have not made any clear decision with regard to what their ultimate strategy might be what their options are, and they haven't decided which of those options they'll employ.
TOM DASCHLE: Well, I don't know that everyone is on the same page, but I believe the President means what he says, and I would hope that he could make sure that he leaves no doubt about his motivation, or about that of the administration.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/congress/july-dec02/daschle_9-17.html   (2496 words)

  
 Tom Daschle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Tom Daschle has proven in the past that he is heavily partisan to his party’s political motives.
Tom Daschle’s latest show of his dirty brand of partisan politics is his recent comments about the President.
Tom Daschle’s moment has come and he has defined for us that there is no priority more important to him then petty partisan politics.
www.thedrewview.com /tom_daschle.htm   (837 words)

  
 "Tom Daschle's Hillary Problem" by Stephanie Mencimer
Daschle insists that she has consulted with congressional ethics staff and is in violation of no rules by lobbying on behalf of American and other clients.
In Daschle's defense, one industry source, who wishes to remain anonymous, says that Linda was far more qualified for the job than many of her predecessors, noting that during the first Bush administration, the deputy FAA administrator had been the Bush family's private campaign pilot.
Daschle was one of many lobbyists the company hired to press its case, but the contract raised questions about Schering-Plough's motives for hiring her, given that Daschle has no expertise in pharmaceutical issues or at the FDA.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2001/0201.mencimer.html   (4134 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Newsmaker: Sen. Tom Daschle -- June 6, 2001
TOM DASCHLE: There is no procedural motion that could I anticipate that I would want to use at this point because we very strongly want to see a good comprehensive education bill that has both Democratic and Republican imprint on it.
TOM DASCHLE: Well, I have assured my colleagues on both sides of the aisle that we are going to be as fair as any majority party could be as the consideration of both nominations, as well as the issues the administration cares about is considered.
TOM DASCHLE: Well, I haven't had many opportunities to tell him anything in recent weeks but I hope this is a new day, and I hope that we'll have many opportunities in the future to talk and constructively consider just how we might act together in a more bipartisan manner.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/congress/jan-june01/daschle_6-6.html   (2561 words)

  
 Tom Daschle--Possible 2004 Candidate
Daschle's name was often in the news in late 2001, and not only as the Senate Democratic leader or as an obstructionist.
Daschle set out as his other priorities: long term economic growth including expanding trade by passing a trade promotion authority ("fast track") bill; economic security including a raise in the minimum wage and a Patient's Bill of Rights; homeland security; and election and campaign finance reform.
Daschle's most immediate challenge, however, was to retain or solidify the Democratic majority in the Senate in the 2002 mid-term elections.
www.gwu.edu /~action/2004/daschle.html   (1113 words)

  
 CampusProgress.org | Live Chat with Tom Daschle
In 1986, Daschle was elected to the Senate.
Tom Daschle: I think it is possible that the defeat of Harriet Miers could mean a much more high profile arch conservative nominee is next.
Tom Daschle: The most pressing political issue for teenage sutdents today is whether they will live in a country that is as free and as fair as the country of our history.
www.campusprogress.org /tools/596/live-chat-with-tom-daschle   (879 words)

  
 Daschle, Tom - HighBeam Encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Daschle, Tom (Thomas Andrew Daschle), 1947-, U.S. senator from South Dakota (1987-2005), b.
A low-key centrist with a reputation as a skillful negotiator, Daschle was a supporter of farm subsidies and acted as the coordinator of the failed effort to pass President Bill Clinton's comprehensive health-care bill in 1994.
Daschle served as Senate minority leader (1995-2001, 2003-2005) and majority leader (2001-3), but he failed to win reelection to the Senate in 2004.
www.encyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /doc/1E1-DaschleT.html   (375 words)

  
 Tom Daschle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daschle's Senate term expired on January 4, 2005.
Daschle spent a great deal of time and energy campaigning for his fellow Democrat Tim Johnson in 2002, who barely defeated Thune by 524 votes.
Daschle has not made intentions clear as to whether or not he will run again for office; however, he has signed on as a Senior Policy Advisor to the law firm Alston and Bird LLP and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Daschle   (1344 words)

  
 Tom Daschle - SourceWatch
Daschle is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, focusing "on health care policy and global economic, security and health issues." Daschle is also "a member of the Global Alliances' steering committee, an international coalition of progressive leaders dedicated to the development and exchange of progressive policy ideas.
Daschle was Democratic Leader in the U.S. Senate from 1994 to 2004 and is "the third longest serving Senate leader in party history." Daschle was born December 9, 1947, in Aberdeen, South Dakota, "raised in a working class family and is the eldest of four brothers.
Daschle is chairman of New Leadership for America, a political action committee which he established in 2005 to help Democratic leaders to public office.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Tom_Daschle   (1164 words)

  
 Senator Tom Daschle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Tom Daschle was born on December 9, 1947, in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he grew up in a working family as the eldest of four brothers.
Tom Daschle is married to Linda Hall Daschle and is the father of three children: Kelly, Nathan and Lindsay.
Probably nothing better characterizes Tom Daschle's Senate priorities than his annual "unscheduled driving" tour, when he travels across his home state of South Dakota in his car with no staff and no schedule.
minority-health.pitt.edu /archive/00000093/01/bio.html   (269 words)

  
 >bt: Tom Daschle’s Big Blunder
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle seems bent on becoming the Senate Minority Leader and destroying the chances his fellow Democrats have of retaking the House of Representatives this fall.
Tom Daschle knows that the current state of the economy makes President Bush and the Republicans vulnerable, and that if the economy gets better before November, the Democrats will have much less of a chance to make solid gains in the mid-term elections.
Daschle would be well advised to pay attention to the lessons taught by the government shutdown of 1995.
brain-terminal.com /posts/2002/01/11/tom-daschles-big-blunder   (1152 words)

  
 Stuck On Stupid: Tom Daschle For President?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
As far fetched as it seems Daschle is hinting at a run for the Presidency in 2008.
A spokesman said Thursday that Daschle, who lost a 2004 bid for re-election in South Dakota but has not ruled out a run for president in 2008, raised the money last year for Democrats in Congress.
Daschle is also scheduled to speak in California and New York this month.
stuckon-stupid.com /blog/2006/01/tom_daschle_for_president_1.html   (216 words)

  
 Tom Daschle - dKosopedia
A fourth-generation South Dakotan, Boy Scout and eventually senior class President, Tom Daschle was the first member of his family to graduate from college.
Daschle presided as Majority Leader until the bruising 2002 midterm elections, when Republicans retook the chamber.
Daschle is criticized by some Democrats as being too busy worrying about his own political vulnerabilities in representing a conservative state to deal with what is best for the Democratic Party, or the nation, as a whole.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Tom_Daschle   (287 words)

  
 A Moderate from South Dakota » Tom Daschle
In an interview, Daschle says “I’m ready for another challenge, I’ve enjoyed underdog status.” Considering the less than stellar response he has received on stops in New Hampshire and Iowa and the early polls not even showing him anywhere on the public radar, saying he is an underdog is an understatement.
They believe that the anti-everything-Bush stance that Daschle employed in his 2004 failed Senate campaign that many believe cost him the election in our deeply “Red” South Dakota could work to his advantage now that the popularity of the GOP in Washington is at almost historic lows.
Tom Daschle made a stop in Manchester, New Hampshire yesterday in his latest speech setup to see if he has a future in the 2008 Presidential sweepstakes and the reviews seem to be mixed.
www.sdmoderate.com /category/tom-daschle   (1704 words)

  
 CNN.com - Thune unseats Senate minority leader Daschle - Nov 3, 2004
Daschle is the first Senate party leader to lose his seat in 52 years.
Daschle, 55, was first elected to the Senate in 1986 after four terms in the House.
Daschle's campaign also raised eyebrows when it ran an advertisement of President Bush and the senator embracing in Congress in the days after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
edition.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/senate.southdakota   (819 words)

  
 Senator Tom Daschle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Tom Daschle is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Senator Daschle is also a member of the Global Alliances' steering committee, an international coalition of progressive leaders dedicated to the development and exchange of progressive policy ideas.
In addition to his work at the Center, Senator Daschle is also a visiting professor at the Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute, conducting student seminars, guest lectures in classrooms, and holding public discussions related to politics and policymaking.
www.americanprogress.org /aboutus/staff/DaschleSenatorTom.html   (214 words)

  
 Kathryn Jean Lopez on Tom Daschle & Election 2004 on National Review Online
Daschle, currently running for reelection in South Dakota in a mighty-tight race against Republican John Thune, has reinvented himself as a pro-life, pro-marriage candidate.
Daschle is running ads trying to make South Dakotans forget all that, but John Thune and ads put out by "You're Fired" (a conservative 527) (seen here) are reminding people of his actual Senate record.
Unfortunately for Tom Daschle and John Kerry — and fortunately for voters — there's a whole world wide web out there and their records are all over it.
www.nationalreview.com /lopez/lopez200410221133.asp   (1081 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Daschle Loses S.D. Senate Seat to Thune - You Decide 2004
The GOP had targeted Daschle, the Senate minority leader, claiming he had been the chief obstruction to President Bush on such issues as tax cuts, judicial nominees and the war in Iraq.
Daschle later said he regretted the timing of his criticism and expressed strong support for U.S. troops in Iraq.
Daschle's rise to the top levels of government has given this sparsely populated rural state a lot of political clout, a point the 56-year-old senator made throughout his campaign.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,137397,00.html   (665 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever: Books: Tom ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Daschle was a participant in many of the major events described here: the Gore/Bush split vote, Trent Lott's apologized-and-rightly-so racism debacle, the Jim Jeffords defection, the 9/11 attacks, the anthrax attacks on Daschle's office, the Afghanistan and Iraq war decisions, and of course the dismal Democrat election defeats of 2002.
Tom Daschle's memoir of the 107th Congress should ultimately be recognized as one of the best first person accounts of the critical two years following the 2000 election.
Tom Daschle wrote this book with another author, or I think he dictated the book to the author would the produced what we have to read.
www.amazon.com /Like-No-Other-Time-Congress/dp/1400049555   (2355 words)

  
 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.
www.time.com /time/pow/article/0,8599,129675,00.html   (925 words)

  
 NPR : National Press Club -- Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle
Tom Daschle (D-SD) serves as minority leader of the upper chamber, a post that caps nearly a quarter century in Congress.
Daschle served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1978 to 1986, when he made a successful bid for the U.S. Senate.
Daschle is married to Linda Hall Daschle; they have three children, Kelly, Nathan and Lindsay.
www.npr.org /programs/npc/2003/030127.pelosidaschle.html   (506 words)

  
 Sen. Tom Daschle
Daschle talks to the press after a ceremony marking the one month anniversary of the terroist attacks.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Speaker fof the House Dennis Hastert meet alone to discuss the planning of the upcoming anti-terrorist bill.
DC Mayor Tony Williams listens to Senator Tom Daschle as he speaks to the press outside DC General Hospital after visiting with postal workers who were getting tested for anthrax.
pfpix.com /daschleweb1/index.htm   (339 words)

  
 Tom Daschle earns Indian country's support : ICT [2004/10/22]
Daschle knows he needs support from the tribes, and he is working honorably to earn it.
Daschle appeals to an Indian country that values those who gain and grow from their experience and who work to build bridges between their state and tribal governments and peoples.
Of recent note, Daschle has provided innovative leadership by promoting and supporting American Indian trade and commerce initiatives, understanding as he does that economic gains in Indian communities also benefit the state's economy.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096409730   (586 words)

  
 Daschle Loses It
Daschle is primarily concerned that President Bush has not proven that Saddam Hussein presents, in Daschle's words, "a very imminent threat." That's a high bar.
For, as Daschle surely knows, if President Bush had proof that the Iraqi threat were imminent, to say nothing of "very imminent," the president wouldn't waste time publishing the evidence.
Daschle was more specific in his talk at the press club.
www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/193umpuj.asp   (509 words)

  
 Stephen Moore on Tom Daschle on National Review Online
Tom Daschle has been living on a government salary for almost all of his working life (how much are we paying these people?) and his wife Linda gets her money from lobbying Congress.
Daschle fights like a pit bull every year to prevent tax cuts for working-class folks, like South Dakota farmers, who could save a few thousand dollars on their taxes thanks to the Bush tax cut.
Daschle was telling the truth when he claimed he was for tax relief: Tax relief for the Daschle family, that is.
www.nationalreview.com /moore/moore090803.asp   (964 words)

  
 Waypath - Topic Stream: Political Figures > Tom Daschle (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Tom Daschle was on Meet the Press with other..., misgovernning, misspeaking disaster.
Tom Daschle was on Meet the Press a few days ago and stated he didn't want to see the NSA's wiretapping program end: Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, along with the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman, said emphatically yesterday that President Bush should continue his controversial terrorist wiretapping program.
He is now citizen Tom Daschle, having been thrown out of office by South Dakota voters for not running enough TV ads showing him hugging President Bush.
www.waypath.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/topic_tomdaschle.html   (2940 words)

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