Thomas Daschle

during the April recess, the Senator from Utah [Mr. Hatch], the Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid], and I traveled to Bosnia and other countries of the former Yugoslavia as well as Albania and Hungary to monitor developments related to…

Today the Senate bids farewell to a group of young men and women who have served as U.S. Senate pages for the spring semester. These young people have been witnesses to vigorous debates on a number of issues of national significance--truly…

the Advisory Committee on Agricultural Concentration has submitted its final report to Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman. The committee has been investigating the relationship between concentration in the livestock processing and…

I want to share a story of how one South Dakota family turned their vision and entrepreneurial drive into a thriving business. "We had one press, one employee, and zero customers." That statement tells the story of the beginning of…

let me express my hope that we can do just as the majority leader has suggested. There is great interest in the Senate in putting this body on record in a way that will allow us to express ourselves on these hideous fires. We can do that…

I recently visited the farm of Doug Henderson in Beresford, SD, and discussed with Doug and his neighbors issues facing southeastern South Dakota farmers. There was much give and take on the new farm bill, the state of cattle prices and…

I will be very brief. Let me compliment the distinguished majority leader on his remarks, and congratulate him on his election. His leadership team sits among those on the floor today who demonstrate, in my view, a new generation of…

Since 1993 the James River has flooded nearly 3 million acres of valuable farmland in my State resulting in billions of dollars of lost revenue for South Dakota producers and greatly diminishing the value of their land by washing away…

let me say first I very much appreciate the manner in which the majority leader has attempted to resolve this issue. No one has been more fair than has he, with regard to finding a way to resolve the matter and, as he indicated some time…

I commend the junior Senator from Kansas for calling attention to the devastating impact of adverse weather on our Nation's producers. I fully support Senate Concurrent Resolution 63, which urges the Secretary of Agriculture to make…

before we leave for the Memorial Day recess, I wanted to make a couple of comments if I could with regard to the current situation on welfare reform. I did not hear all of his remarks, but I know that the Senator from South Dakota just…

let me express enthusiastically my desire to work with the whip to make that happen. I only lend one small piece of advice if he is desirous of making that happen sooner rather than later. We could simply take the defend America bill off…

Lack of retirement security is America's quiet crisis. Americans who work hard all their lives--either in the workplace or at home--deserve peace of mind that a secure retirement awaits them. But too many Americans live in fear that they…

let me just note parenthetically, if that is correct, that the majority party is the same party that has criticized the President's budget because the President sunsets his tax cuts. But now the majority comes before us with a…

this is, in my view, a ludicrous abuse of power. If this ruling is upheld we will be giving more and more power to the Budget Committee, power cloaked in the fast-track protection of the budget process itself. We will be granting immense…

This resolution assumes that a reconciliation bill will be triggered that will violate the Byrd rule unless it is terminated at the end of 2002 or else subsequently offset. The assumption of the resolution is that tax cuts will sunset in…

the Byrd rule requires that there be a sufficient offset or deficit-reduction--and no worsening of the deficit in the outyears--to a reconciliation package for it to be in order. But his reconciliation instructions in this resolution…

President Theodore Roosevelt once wrote, ``Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it meant that life itself has become one.'' The death of Adm. Jeremy M. ``Mike'' Boorda was particularly tragic. But…

the President's fiscal year 1997 budget builds on the immense economic success of his 1993 budget. Since the enactment of that historic deficit reduction package, the Federal deficit has been cut in half--from $290 billion to a projected…

It was absolute unanimity, agreement right down the line, word for word, paragraph for paragraph, provision for provision. There was no disagreement. The joint news conferences by the chairs of both the House and the Senate Budget…

Apparently the Senator is right. That is the essence of the problem we have here. It is why we are absolutely paralyzed until we can resolve it. All we are trying to do is have the opportunity to have a good debate about each of these…

However, we went back in the 103d Congress just to try to find an example or an instance when the majority filled the parliamentary tree, filled the tree in every way, to preclude the minority from having an opportunity to offer an…

I must say I do not know that we will ever be able to resolve this until we can find a way to allow separate bills to be considered. The problem we have is, we cannot offer amendments. That is the essence of it. We cannot offer amendments…

we have not made a lot of progress in the last several hours, and I am hopeful that at some point today we can reach an agreement. The current situation would require a vote on three separate provisions of the same amendment to a bill that…

I was hoping that one of my colleagues would ask it, because obviously it is an issue that has come up before. We made a very calculated decision in the beginning of the last Congress that we were not going to be able to do both health…