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His Senate Democratic colleagues elected Daschle as their leader in 1994. He is one of the longest serving Senate Democratic leaders in history, and the only one to serve twice as both majority and minority leader. During his tenure as leader, Senator Daschle co-managed the second impeachment trial of a U.S. president, co-presided over the ...
Senator Daschle is the Founder and CEO of The Daschle Group, a Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson. The Daschle Group is a full-service strategic advisory firm that advises clients on a broad array of economic, policy and political issues. Senator Daschle has participated in the development and debate of almost every major public policy ...
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Senator Robert Byrd, a former Democratic leader himself, commented that Daschle “has steel in his spine, despite his reasonable and modest demeanor.” Daschle negotiated the power-sharing agreement that governed the evenly divided Senate in 2001 and helmed the party during the tumultuous days of the September 11 and anthrax attacks of 2001.
Tom Daschle. Thomas Andrew Daschle ( / ˈdæʃəl / DASH-əl; born December 9, 1947) is an American politician and lobbyist who represented South Dakota in the United States Senate from 1987 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he led the Senate Democratic Caucus during the final ten years of his tenure, during which time he served as ...
Dec 12, 2004 · One of the most dramatic moments in Mr. Daschle's tenure as Senate Democratic leader came in June 2001 when Senator James M. Jeffords, then a Republican from Vermont, became an independent ...
Dec 12, 2004 · By Eric Pianin. December 12, 2004 at 12:00 a.m. EST. Sen. Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) has little taste for political postmortems -- particularly his own -- as he prepares to depart from the Senate ...
Daschle. He did, because he’s such an icon and because he was viewed as such a legislative giant, especially in the ’90s. He had a lot to do with many of the key questions that we faced at the time. He obviously is very deeply interested in health, but he’s also interested in issues involving working people.
