Tom dashall biography

Senator Daschle is the Founder and CEO of The Daschle Group, A Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson. The Daschle Group is a full-service strategic advisory firm that advises clients on a broad array of economic, policy and political issues.

In , Senator Daschle he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he served for eight years. In , he was elected to the US Senate and was chosen as Senate Democratic Leader in In , he chronicled some of these experiences in his book, Like No Other Time: The th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever. In the release of The US Senate: Fundamentals of American Government, Senator Daschle explores the inner workings of this important part of the legislative branch.

Since leaving the Senate, Senator Daschle has remained an active and learned voice among policy-makers. He has distinguished his experience in health care through the publication of Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis and Getting It Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate to Make Way for Health Care Reform. Senator Daschle has also emerged as a leading thinker on climate change, food security and renewable energy policy.

Born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Senator Daschle attended South Dakota State University, graduating in He is married to Linda Hall Daschle and has three children and five grandchildren.

Born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Thomas A. Daschle attended South Dakota State University and graduated in Following college, he served for three years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force Strategic Command. After military service, he spent five years as an aide to South Dakota Senator James Abourezk.

In he was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, serving eight years. He is one of the first members of Congress to serve in a Democratic leadership position in his first term of office, as a regional whip. Reapportionment cost South Dakota one of its two House seats in , and Daschle became the first member of the House to represent South Dakota statewide.

In Daschle was elected to the U.S. Senate. He became a national leader on numerous public policy issues, including Native Americans, health care, alternative energy, foreign policy, agriculture, and rural America. As co-chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, he became the first South Dakotan to be elected to a leadership position in the Senate.

His Senate Democratic colleagues elected Daschle as their leader in He is one of the longest serving Senate Democratic leaders in history, and the only one to serve twice as both majority and minority leader. During his tenure as leader, Senator Daschle co-managed the second impeachment trial of a U.S. president, co-presided over the first Senate, and led the Senate in response to the attacks of September 11 and the anthrax attack on his office one month later. With more than 25 years of service in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and ten years as Senate Democratic leader, Senator Daschle has played an historic role in the development of U.S. legislative and regulatory policy.

In he joined with former majority leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and Howard Baker to create the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization dedicated to finding common ground on pressing policy challenges of our time. He is also co-chair of the ONE V

American politician (born )

Thomas Andrew Daschle (DASH-əl; born December 9, ) is an American politician and lobbyist who represented South Dakota in the United States Senate from to A member of the Democratic Party, he led the Senate Democratic Caucus during the final ten years of his tenure, during which time he served as Senate Minority Leader and Majority Leader.

After leaving the United States Air Force, he was elected