Thomas Daschle: “I want to re-instate a science-driven environment. I want to take ideology and politics as much as humanly possible out…”

It will use Social Security and Medicare surpluses. It will create the same deficit situation, I promise you, as we have seen all through the 1980s and early `90s.

It seems to me to make a lot of sense that there should be a Federal health board that has some oversight responsibility.

Senator Tom Daschle recently said he thinks Members of the Senate spend more time fundraising than they do working in Congress.

Compromise is the oxygen of democracy. And Bob Dole provided a lot of oxygen over those years he was in Senate leadership.