Honorable Tom Daschle
United States Senator, South Dakota, Democrat
Senator Daschle was first elected to the U.S Senate in 1986. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1978 to 1986. He is the Majority Leader of the Senate. The following is from remarks delivered on the Senate floor on February 15, 2002, on the Administration’s Council of Economic Advisers Report.The Administration’s Council of Economic Advisers will issue today some self-serving economic revisionism — a little like a figure skating judge awarding the gold medal to his own team. We are going to hear that the recession was somehow shorter and shallower than it would have been without…
