Thomas Daschle: “You have seen an increase in the draw down of the Social Security trust fund. We have actually spent $2 trillion of…”

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

The American people, by survey after survey, say they want these tax loopholes closed when they are informed particularly of the loopholes which allow corporations to shift revenue to a tax haven.

Look, Dick Cheney and I disagreed on just about everything.

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.