Thomas Daschle: “I was in Maine a couple of days ago and was reminded again of what an emotional issue it is for seniors who have no…”

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

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.

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

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.