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Former Sen. Tom Daschle says controlling the cost of malpractice insurance will have to be a part of the Obama administration's overhaul of the health care system.
President Barack Obama is taking responsibility for mistakes in the handling of the tax controversy that led to Tom Daschle's withdrawal as President Barack Obama's nominee to be health and human services secretary, saying: "I screwed up."
Tom Daschle withdrew Tuesday as President Barack Obama's nominee to be health and human services secretary, dealing potential blows to both speedy health care reform and Obama's hopes for a smooth start in the White House. "Now we must move forward," Obama said in a written statement accepting "with sadness and regret" Daschle's request to be removed from consideration. A day earlier, Obama had said he "absolutely" stood by Daschle in the face of problems over back taxes and potential conflicts of interest.
Some reactions to Tom Daschle withdrawing his nomination for secretary of health and human services.
A top aide to President Barack Obama says Tom Daschle withdrew his Cabinet nomination because he knew the Senate confirmation process would be protracted and he did not want to distract from Obama's agenda.
The White House says Tom Daschle made the decision to withdraw his nomination for health secretary.
Text of statement by Tom Daschle, withdrawing his nomination for secretary of health and human services:
Faced with problems over back taxes and potential conflicts of interest, Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination on Tuesday to be President Barack Obama's Health and Human Services secretary.
Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination to be Health and Human Services secretary.
- An Obama administration official says Nancy Killefer is withdrawing her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government.
President Barack Obama says he "absolutely" stands by Tom Daschle's nomination for secretary of health and human services.
Tom Daschle's former Democratic colleagues were rallying to his defense after he met behind closed doors with the Senate Finance Committee to discuss problems with back taxes and potential conflicts of interest, but lawmakers promised he will face more questions.
Former Sen. Tom Daschle's failure to pay his taxes on time isn't expected to derail his confirmation as health secretary for the Obama administration, Republicans and Democrats say.
Another of President Barack Obama's Cabinet nominees has run into tax problems.
Former Sen. Tom Daschle, picked by President Barack Obama to lead his health reform efforts, recently filed amended tax returns to report $128,203 in back taxes and $11,964 in interest, according to a Senate document obtained by The Associated Press.
Tom Daschle told former Senate colleagues on Thursday that as health secretary he would learn from former President Bill Clinton's failed attempt to overhaul health care, an effort criticized as too long, secretive and hard to understand.
Problems in the health care system have only grown more severe since a series of health care meetings more than two years ago yielded few results. So President-elect Barack Obama's transition team has set up a new round of public sessions it hopes will translate into real changes this time.
Drawing on lessons from past debates, President-elect Barack Obama handed Tom Daschle two prime jobs Thursday and one gigantic assignment: overhauling the health care system so more people are covered by insurance.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle says he's looking to implement health care reform from the "grass roots up."
President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday named three veteran regulators to round out his economic team and vowed to revamp regulatory rules to prevent a repeat of the financial and economic debacles the country is suffering through.
Tom Daschle's new job as secretary of Health and Human Services would mark his return to Washington politics after a bitter Senate defeat left him searching for a way to stay involved.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said Wednesday. The appointment has not been announced, but these officials said the job is Daschle's, barring an unforeseen problem as Obama's team reviews the background of the South Dakota Democrat.
President-elect Barack Obama is seriously considering selecting former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle as his secretary of Health and Human Services, a person close to the deliberations said Wednesday.
Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle said Monday there is no chance Barack Obama will pick him as a running mate.
Not all of Daschle's former colleagues seemed clear on his involvement. The really far-fetched view is where things start to get interesting!
Daschle: Budget process could be 'only way' for health care Following a morning meeting with President Barack Obama, former Sen. Tom Daschle told POLITICO that passing a health care bill through the filibuster-proof budget process could be the Democrats' key to success.
New Health Czar Challenges Obama's Ethics ReformsNancy-Ann Min DeParle, who President Obama appointed as director of the White House Office of Health Care Reform on Monday, took home at least $2.4 million in 2006 and 2007 from serving on the corporate boards of health-care companies whose businesses she would be in a position t …
Obama to tap Kathleen Sebelius as health chiefThe president's choice of the Kansas governor for health and human services secretary, will face a host of challenges, including a health system in disarray and a nation's food supply at risk.
Obama: virgin beauty on wedding night Though Ralph Emmanuel, White House chief of staff said it was not an amateur hour and Obama had fared better than Clinton, the first month of the new administration was like the proverbial virgin beauty on wedding night.
Apologies are a funny thing. Some are accepted and some aren't. Certain apologies are accepted by some, and not others. We have seen and heard a lot of apologies in the past few weeks.
Joe Trippi: Daschle's Situation, and the Small-Dollar SolutionWhen history is written, will Sen. Tom Daschle's withdrawn nomination for President Obama's Cabinet represent a tax issue? No. Will it represent an issue of "vetting" that can be solved with a few questions on a questionnaire? No...
Bob Herbert: The Chess Master -- the Bad-mouthing of Barack Obama It was just a week ago that the bad-mouthing of Barack Obama seemed to be reaching a fever pitch.
Daschle's Demise Is Just the Beginning: Get Ready for a Torrent of Populist OutrageAmericans have had just about enough of watching insiders with the right connections living well off the rest of us.
President Barack Obama gets big points in owning up, stepping up and saying "I screwed up" when it came to a series of botched Cabinet nominees (some of whom somehow forgot to pay their income taxes).
Slumdogs Unite!SOMEDAY historians may look back at Tom Daschle's flameout as a minor one-car (and chauffeur) accident. But that will depend on whether or not it's followed by a multi-vehicle pileup that still could come.
My Children Made Me Do It Now the politicians are cheating on their taxes for the children.
Obama's Team: Above the LawLabor Secretary-designate Hilda Solis is the latest Cabinet-level honcho to fall afoul of the tax collector; whether she wriggles off the hook is a matter of the usual high drama inside the Beltway - but the source of great anger and distress elsewhere.
In Washington, Public Policy and Private Wealth Are Hopelessly TangledBarack Obama in Washington reminds one of Diogenes in Athens, with his lantern in search of an honest man. They seem harder to find than the candidate Obama thought when he promised a Cabinet unsullied by business lobbyists and other peddlers of sectarian interests.
Gallup Poll finds Confidence in Obama Remains High After Cabinet TroublesPresident Barack Obama had to face tough questioning from the media this week over his process for choosing his top advisers after Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer withdrew their nominations for failing to pay back taxes.
Daschle received speaking fees from groups opposing patient privacyTom Daschle, President Obama's nominee for secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, received speaking fees last year from two organizations that are aligned with health industry groups that opposed strong patient privacy protections in the health care section of the …
A Short History of Failed Presidential Cabinet AppointeesPresident Tyler holds the record: four Cabinet nominees withdrawing or being rejected. Will Obama match that?
Obama Says What Bush Couldn't: "I Screwed Up"President Obama hit the networks last night for some serious self-flagellation. As an example, here he is talking to NBC's Brian Williams (via Pamela Leavey):
A Good Day to Get Out of the White HouseIf this is Obama's honeymoon, one shudders to think what a lovers' quarrel would look like.
The fall of Tom Daschle yesterday points to the fact that the Obama administration makes mistakes. The difference is that this isn't a "campaign error" . He is now President of the United States.
Mo Dowd: Well, That Certainly Didn't Take Long -- Is Obama surrounded by idiots? On 9/11, President Bush learned of disaster while reading "The Pet Goat" to grade-school kids. On Tuesday, President Obama escaped from disaster by reading "The Moon Over Star" to grade-school kids.
Mr. President 44. We've Got Yo' Back. The Place for Committed President Advocacy" Tom Daschle Made A Mistake. Other beings Esculated It To "Crime" Because of their Hate Tactics Against President Obama.Posted by Gloria J. Hunt Keith on February 4, 2009 at 2:07am
Blacklisting Progressives: The Untold Story Beneath the Daschle Headlines Amid the swirling headlines about Tom Daschle withdrawing his nomination for Health and Human Service Secretary is a very dark, very foreboding story that tells us a lot more about what to expect from the Obama administration than a single nomination fight.
Note to Dems: Paying Taxes is Not VoluntaryA liberal friend of this blog who served in a previous Democratic White House shot me a private email recently: "Am I the only Democrat who pays his taxes?" This half-kidding response came to the news that Tom Daschle remembered only after being nominated to head the Departme …
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