blogs.tnr.com - 11/19/2008
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So much health care news, so little time to blog. But let me weigh in on the news, via, CNN, that Tom Daschle will be Secretary of Health and Human Services . He will also serve as the White House point person on health care reform . This is a perfect role for Daschle. Although he was always ...
prospect.org - 11/19/2008
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prospect.org —
CNN is reporting that Tom Daschle will not
only be Health and Human Services Secretary, but also
health reform czar under the Obama administration. This is huge news, and the clearest evidence yet that Obama means to pursue comprehensive health ...
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TOM DASCHLE: HEALTH CZAR.
online.wsj.com - 11/19/2008
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/19/2008
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. (Susan Walsh
/ Associated Press) By Ceci Connolly and Chris Cillizza
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his close confidant and former Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle to serve as secretary of the ...
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Obama Picks Daschle for HHS
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BREAKING NEWS: Tom Daschle to be both Health Czar and Health and Human Services Secretary
The Reaction —
... As is so often the case with all things health-care-related, I turn to TNR's Jonathan Cohn: "This is a perfect role for Daschle. Although he was always been interested in health care, in the last few years he's become a true wonk on the subject, publishing a book called Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis. It urges precisely the sorts of reforms President-Elect Obama and his congressional allies are promoting right now." ...
Hot For Daschle
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Jonathan Cohn is also excited. I find the idea of getting excited by Tom Daschle a little esoteric myself. But the liberals won this one. They get to have their thrill in whatever unlikely form it takes. ...
On Health Reform Process, Daschle Demurs
TPM Election Central —
... Daschle, tapped by Barack Obama to head the health and human services department, had hinted as far back as June that he would consider using ...
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com 2/2/2009 —
Based on interviews with aides and public documents provided to reporters by the finance committee, here's what is known about former Sen. Tom Daschle, his tax liaibilities, and his disclosures to the friendly White House and to the ...
Daschle to head HHS —
First Read 11/19/2008
From NBC's Andrea MitchellNBC News has confirmed that Tom Daschle -- the former Democratic Senate leader who backed Obama early in the Democratic nomination fight -- has been tapped to be the next secretary at the Department Health and Human ...
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