Thomas Daschle: “This is something that really does deserve a framework, a national framework.”

Federal action to establish a mandatory program to limit greenhouse gas emissions is sensible and will provide agricultural producers with significant new market opportunities.

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.