Thomas Daschle: “We can't have the president or anybody else dictating how that commission is going to work and the nominees who will be…”

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.

Bob Dole was a partisan but it was he and Pat Moynihan that saved the Social Security System.

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

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