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Live Blog: Daschle Returns to the Senate
This morning, former Majority Leader Tom Daschle returns to his former haunts. We're live blogging the confirmation hearing.
Daschle's approach: Anything but Clinton
politico.com — They might sit side-by-side in Barack Obama’s Cabinet room someday, but Tom Daschle didn’t much like Hillary Clinton’s tactics for fixing health care 15 years ago. (more) Daschle's approach: Anything but Clinton
Tom Geoghegan for Congress
Tom Geoghegan for Congress
jamesfallows.theatlantic.com — Two years ago, I said I was making an exception to the "no active involvement in politics" stance I had maintained through my previous decades of journalistic life. (After leaving a one-time stint in politics in the Jimmy Carter years.) That exception ... (more) Tom Geoghegan for Congress
Daschle Lays Out a Plan to Overhaul Health Care
Daschle Lays Out a Plan to Overhaul Health Care
nytimes.com — At a confirmation hearing, Tom Daschle said the task had become more urgent because of the recession. > (more) Daschle Lays Out a Plan to Overhaul Health Care
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Confirmation hearings for President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet began today with the testimony of Thomas A. Daschle, Obama's choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services and a new White House Office of Health Reform.
Daschle floats through Senate hearingPOLITICO.com: Congress 1/8/2009
Both Dem and Republican members treated the pick with the deference they often show to one of their own.