Thomas Daschle

I was recently presented with tragic news regarding the death of a unique and talented young man. Grant Koppelman, a native of Rapid City, SD, who worked in my office in 1986, was killed while traveling overseas. He was 30 years old. My…

Senator Hollings and I have crafted a package of provisions designed to strike a better balance between consumer protections and market deregulation. These safeguards are designed to protect consumers by expanding services and keeping them…

there is much to celebrate on a day like this, as the distinguished Senator from Virginia has just articulated so eloquently, to celebrate the fact that there are young men and women willing to commit their lives for the security interests…

today the Senate lost a very valuable member of the family. Chick Reynolds, the Chief Reporter of Debates, passed away early this morning. Mr. President, Chick's career in stenotype reporting began in 1949 at the Department of Defense. He…

let me just briefly respond to a couple of points. First of all, the majority leader filed cloture before the first amendment was offered. I do not know what kind of good faith effort there had been to try to work on both sides to…

let me commend the ranking member and chairman on the work they have done on the last couple of legislative days we have been on this bill. This is really just the second day we have been on the bill. As everyone recalls, this is not a…

I am fortunate to come from a State with sparsely populated expanses of some of the most beautiful land in this country. States like South Dakota have a special interest in the legislation before the Senate today, as it will directly…

I just ask for a moment to associate myself with the remarks of the Senator from Vermont, as well as the other Senator from Vermont, Senator Leahy. Obviously, Vermont has had a very good experience with flow control. It has been able to…

earlier today Senator McConnell suggested on the Senate floor that the President's trip to Moscow has been a wasted effort--that there has not been a shred of progress made there. I do not want anyone who may have been listening to that…

I want to commend so many Senators on both sides of the aisle for their efforts over the last couple of weeks on product liability. This has been a vigorous debate, and a debate that obviously has required a good deal of compromise and…

I would hope people will vote against cloture again this morning simply to preserve the options that we think are going to be very important, if indeed we reach a compromise here. I think we are getting closer now in the last 48 hours to…

today, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of V-E Day, I am proud to submit a resolution honoring a special group of World War II veterans, the code talkers of the Lakota and Dakota tribes. In the early days of World War II, American…

since the terrible bombing in Oklahoma City more than 2 weeks ago, we have been forced to consider what the society should do in self-defense against potentially deadly maniacs who think that killing defenseless people is a way to send a…

the resolution is entitled ``Protecting Medicare and Medicaid.'' The important part of the resolution simply says: Therefore, be it Resolved by the 1995 White House Conference on Aging to support policies that: Address problems facing the…

on April 24, 1964, Sergeant First Class Raymond Adams, a 10-year Army veteran, was killed by a hand grenade in South Vietnam. Sergeant Adams was 30 years old and married. More than 8 years later, on July 21, 1972, Specialist Fifth Class…

But he and I have a very fundamental difference of opinion with regard to Medicare, and I wish to respond briefly to comments that he made today on that issue. He said in his remarks the Medicare trustees' report predicting insolvency only…

I may be a little biased, but I have always believed if you give South Dakotans an even break, they can make a living even under the toughest circumstances. Yesterday I met with a man who proves my point. His name is Randy Boyd, and he was…

today is May 3, more than a month after the law requires a budget resolution to be reported to the Senate for debate. It is 18 days past April 15, when the law requires a budget resolution to have been completed and passed. Yet, the Senate…

more than a hundred years ago, Sitting Bull, chief of the Lakota Sioux Indians, implored Americans: ``Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.'' I thought of that plea again on Saturday, April 22, the…

In 1991 Congress designated a 39-mile stretch of the Missouri River from Fort Randall to Lewis and Clark Lake as a national recreational river. The purpose of the recreational river designation is to protect the river and its environment…

as I said before the vote, it was not our desire to hold up this bill. I will reiterate my sincere desire to work with the majority leader in finding an agreement. What I hope we might be able to do, perhaps, is to maybe run two tracks…

last night, the majority leader and I announced that we had a tentative agreement with regard to the pending legislation. We had hoped that as a result of our negotiations, which have been conducted in good faith on both sides, it would…

this bill is going to change business as usual. There will be less ability to sneak things in, less opportunity for people late at night to put little provisions in the bill that we only understand later to have consequential effects both…

last week, Senator Baucus introduced the Missouri River Water Control Equity Act. I have cosponsored that bill because all the analysis of the current master manual guidelines for managing the dams along the Missouri River that I have seen…

The practice of permanently replacing workers who are exercising their right to strike, as guaranteed by longstanding Federal labor law, is wrong. It is wrong to punish striking workers for exercising their rights, and it is wrong to use…