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Tom Daschle stories: 44 news summaries

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Daschle Plugged Sugar Daddy for White House Job

Mogul Hindery employed former senator at high pay; his limo service at root of tax flap

Feb 3, 09 8:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle advocated for an administration position for business patron Leo Hindery, Politico reports. Hindery gave Daschle a high-paying job (and the car service that led to tax questions), and Daschle suggested Hindery for a government role—maybe commerce secretary or trade representative. “It... More »

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John Edwards • Health and Human Services • taxes • Tom Daschle • Obama administration • Leo Hindery

 Daschle Faces 
 Grilling on 
 Charity Gifts,
 Apologizes 
 on Taxes 


Releases letter of apology to lawmakers for tax mistakes

Feb 2, 09 7:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Already beset with questions about his failure to pay taxes, Tom Daschle will likely also face questions today over whether he received improper gifts from charities, the Wall Street Journal reports. President Obama's nominee for health secretary is reported to have flown with an education charity to a Bahamas retreat... More »

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Health and Human Services • taxes • charity • apology • health secretary • gift • Tom Daschle • tax returns • Obama administration • letter

 GOP Goes 
 Easy on 
 Daschle, 
 For Now 

Key Senators will wait to learn more about tax problems

Feb 1, 09 4:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Influential Republicans are holding their tongues on Tom Daschle's tax troubles for now, Politico reports. GOP Senators Jon Kyl, Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint, and Susan Collins all adopted a wait-and-see approach on today’s talk shows. “I want to find out more about it,” DeMint said of the... More »

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politics • Jon Kyl • Mitch McConnell • talk show • Susan Collins • Tom Daschle • senator • Obama administration

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

Senate Queasy on Spending in Obama Stimulus

Kyl: 'Start from scratch;' McConnell vows Dems won't get 60 seats

Feb 1, 09 11:30 AM CST
(Newser) - The level of spending in Barack Obama’s House-approved $819 billion stimulus package will complicate its Senate passage, say two senators whose support will be crucial. “Unfortunately, this bill has become a Christmas tree,” Republican Susan Collins told CNN, while Democratic colleague Ben Nelson said, “There’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Senate • Jon Kyl • Mitch McConnell • Susan Collins • economic stimulus package • Tom Daschle • Ben Nelson • Judd Gregg

Daschle Waited to Tell Obama About Tax Glitch

HHS nominee knew his taxes needed fixing; didn't know how much

Feb 1, 09 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Health secretary-designate Tom Daschle didn’t tell the Obama administration that he owed years of back taxes until a month after he’d been nominated, the Washington Post reports. He paid $140,000 in taxes January 2 and told government leaders about it two days later. He had known his... More »

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Health and Human Services • taxes • lobbyist • Tom Daschle • tax returns • Obama administration • President Obama

(AP) - The White House acknowledged today that "some tax issues" had emerged in connection with Barack Obama's nomination of Tom Daschle as health secretary. But a spokesman says the president is confident the former Senate Democratic leader will be confirmed. White House officials confirmed a broadcast report that Daschle failed... More »

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health secretary • Tom Daschle • Obama Cabinet

 Daschle:
 Health Reform 
 About Facts, 
 Not Ideology 

Obama nominee pledges bipartisan effort despite controversial plan

Jan 8, 09 2:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services promised today a bipartisan effort to reform health care, the New York Times reports. “When it comes to health care, we really are in it together,” Tom Daschle said during Senate confirmation hearings, where chairman Ted Kennedy... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • health insurance • public health • Ted Kennedy • Bob Dole • health care reform • Tom Daschle • Senate committees • President Obama • Obama Cabinet • bipartisan

As Hearings Begin, Daschle Wary of Clinton Miscues

Obama health chief to push early, at grassroots, with congressional input

Jan 8, 09 10:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Tom Daschle, Barack Obama’s health-care honcho, saw the 1993 Clinton-care debacle up close; his strategy for passing reform this time around is basically Anything But Clinton, reports Politico. The Clinton push, Daschle thinks, came too far into the first term, and was too exclusive, presenting Congress a completed proposal... More »

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health care • Hillary Clinton • Congress • Health and Human Services • Sanjay Gupta • health care reform • Hillary Care • Tom Daschle

analysis

Obama Fills West Wing With Powerful Czars

Critics warn of collision between Cabinet, top advisers in key jobs

Jan 8, 09 9:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Stories of agencies working on the same projects and not bothering to coordinate dog every presidential administration, but Barack Obama has an ambitious plan to avoid all that: He’s concentrating power over domestic issues in the hands of White House advisers. “It really is a way of him... More »

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Barack Obama • White House • bureaucracy • czar • Tom Daschle • President Obama • Obama Cabinet • Adolfo Carrion • White House Office of Health Reform • Carol Browner • White House Council on Environmental Quality

 Daschle Will 
 Play Hardball 
 on Health Reform 

Incoming HHS Secretary will avoid Hillary's pitfalls

Dec 15, 08 11:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Tom Daschle, Barack Obama's incoming Director of Health and Human Services, has an aggressive strategy for reforming health care, and no intentions of seeing it fizzle the way the Clintons' efforts did in 1993, reports the Los Angeles Times. The key will be reeling in major health-care interest groups, along... More »

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health care • Hillary Clinton • health insurance • Health and Human Services • Medicare • American Medical Association • health care reform • special interests • Tom Daschle

 Spouses Put Obama's 
 Lobbying Rules to Test 

President-elect struggles with ethical promises

Dec 15, 08 10:40 AM CST
(Newser) - The spouses of some of Barack Obama’s top appointees are lobbyists, the New York Times reports, presenting a test to strict ethics policies the Democrat pushed on the campaign trail. Health Secretary-designate Tom Daschle’s wife, Linda, is one of Washington’s top aviation lobbyists, and reported energy-czar pick... More »

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ethics • Barack Obama • lobbying • lobbyists • transition • Tom Daschle • President Obama • Carol Browner • Linda Daschle

Daschle to Head Health Services, New Reform Office 

Move seen to signal Obama's focus on issue

Dec 11, 08 2:46 PM CST
(Newser) - As expected, President-elect Barack Obama today nominated Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services, CQ Politics reports. Daschle will also head the new White House Office of Health Reform, geared toward providing near-universal health care to Americans. Daschle “will be responsible not just for implementing our health... More »

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Barack Obama • Department of Health • health care reform • Tom Daschle • Election 2008 • President Obama • White House Office of Health Reform • Jeanne M. Lambrew

(Newser) - Barack Obama went before reporters to introduce Tom Daschle as his pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services today, but the real attention was on his reaction to the Rod Blagojevich scandal. “I was as appalled and disappointed as anyone,” he said, sayinghe's still gathering... More »

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Barack Obama • Health and Human Services • corruption • Illinois • Rod Blagojevich • Tom Daschle • political scandal • President Obama

Daschle Begins Push to Reform Health Care

Would-be secretary
will ask Americans
to contribute ideas

Dec 5, 08 8:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Although his nomination as health secretary hasn't yet been announced, Tom Daschle is already beginning his push for a comprehensive overhaul of the system, the Wall Street Journal reports. In a speech today, Daschle will emphasize that the economic downturn makes it all the more important to lower health care... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • health insurance • insurance • health care reform • health secretary • Tom Daschle • President Obama

In Health Reform, Obama Returns to Grass Roots, Tech

Dem's team give Web activists chance to weigh in on efforts

Dec 4, 08 12:56 PM CST
(Newser) - In an effort to jump-start health care reform, Barack Obama is returning to the social networking tools that got him elected, the Washington Post reports. Likely Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Daschle is starring in YouTube videos and taking massive conference calls with supporters interested in the subject. “... More »

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Barack Obama • social networking • YouTube • Department of Health • health care reform • Tom Daschle • Election 2008 • President Obama

Next Stab at Health Reform Looks More Promising

Industry claims to be ready to compromise

Nov 20, 08 9:33 AM CST
(Newser) - If health care reform passes this time, a major factor will be that its erstwhile enemies are now rooting for it, the Wall Street Journal reports. An industry roadblock killed the Clinton administration’s attempt in the early 1990s, but this time, insurers are playing ball. “You see a... More »

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health care • Ted Kennedy • health care industry • universal health care • Clinton administration • health care reform • Max Baucus • Tom Daschle • health insurers • President Obama

 Daschle to Be Health Secretary 

Will head health transition

Nov 19, 08 11:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle has been offered, and intends to accept, a post as Barack Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Roll Call reports. Daschle will also head the health care policy transition group. Nearly all of Obama’s transition policy working group heads are expected... More »

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Barack Obama • Health and Human Services • Cabinet • Department of Health • Tom Daschle • President Obama

McCain Cleverly Made Race Factor: Emanuel

Campaign prevented backlash by panning Obama comment

Aug 27, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s campaign managed to slip the issue of race into the presidential election, Democratic heavyweight Rahm Emanuel said today. “They got it through customs," Emanuel said at a Politico-hosted roundtable, characterizing the Republicans’ tactic of injecting race with reaction to a perceived offense by Barack Obama.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Democrats • race • Rahm Emanuel • Obama 2008 • Tom Daschle • the race card

ANALYSIS

Obama Building His Own Democratic Party

Candidate focuses on boosting top-to-bottom health through better infrastructure

Aug 19, 08 1:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama is running as an “outsider candidate” fed up with partisan politics—yet he is, ironically, perhaps the most party-focused presidential candidate in history, Dana Goldstein and Ezra Klein write in the American Prospect. Obama has moved much of the Democratic National Committee apparatus to Chicago, rebuilt its... More »

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Barack Obama • Howard Dean • Democratic National Committee • Obama 2008 • Democratic Party • Tom Daschle

Reid Takes
the Long View

Senate majority leader points toward 2010, looking to avoid Daschle's fate

Aug 12, 08 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Reid has positioned himself among the Democratic elite in Washington, but that doesn't mean the Senate majority leader is taking his eye off of the 2010 election in his home state of Nevada, reports Politico. Reid is maintaining his power position in the Senate while discreetly launching a campaign... More »

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Democrats • Republican • Harry Reid • Nevada • Tom Daschle • senator • Senate majority leader • 2010 election

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