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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.
In owning up to the mistake of nominating former Sen. Tom Daschle for his Cabinet — in spite of known problems with his tax returns — President Obama said it was important to stress that “there aren’t two sets of rules, one for prominent people and one for ordinary folks who have to pay their taxes.”
NBC's Brian Williams briefly wondered if he was being stood up while waiting at the White House to interview President Barack Obama and noticing a presidential motorcade leaving the building.
President Barack Obama made more children from middle-class families eligible for government health insurance Thursday by lifting a directive imposed by his predecessor.
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."
Barack Obama on Tuesday abruptly abandoned his nomination fight for Tom Daschle and a second major appointee who failed to pay all their taxes, fearing a lingering ethics dispute would undercut his claims to moral high ground and cripple his presidency in just its second week. "I screwed up," Obama declared.
Tom Daschle's decision to withdraw his nomination as health and human services secretary clouds hopes that President Barack Obama will make significant progress on health reform in his first 100 days in the White House.
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.
The text of President Barack Obama's opening statement at his news conference Monday night, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to lead his effort to design an overhaul of the nation's health care system and shepherd it through Congress.
Barack Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary, embracing a third Washington insider in the early stages of Cabinet-building by the president-elect who promised change. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the capital's most famous woman for two decades, seemed ever more likely to be his secretary of state.
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.
Bob Dole outs naysayer Mitch McConnellThe great wall of Republican opposition to health-care reform may be showing some cracks: Bob Dole supports health care reform.
Live or Let Die. By Philip Klein. 8.14.09 @ 6:09AMA provision within the House Democrats' health care bill that would create a new Medicare benefit paying for senior citizens to talk to a doctor or nurse about how to prepare for end-of-life medical decisions has emerged as one of the most controversial elements of the legislatio …
The Daschle-Dole Health Care "Compromise"Today, former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bob Dole unveil a bipartisan health care reform plan that they're billing as a "compromise" between GOP and Democratic health care principles.
The Proof of Political Wisdom Is in the Results of the ElectionElections are always great for providing answers to questions that seem impossible to predict before polls close but are absolutely obvious afterward.
Predictably, IRS agents are running into the "Going Geithner," or "Gone Geithner," or "I went Geithner," excuses when attempting to collect taxes from delinquent taxpayers.
Sebelius pays $7,000 in back taxes after errorsHealth and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius has corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors."
When it came to Tom Daschle's tax problems, it seems to me there were two possibilities: (1.) he truly made an error of oversight on an imputed income tax issue of a significant amount, or (2.) he knowingly thought he could get away without paying a material amount of income tax.
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 Stumbles"Nobody who heard him addressing a joint session of the House and Senate on Tuesday could doubt that Barack Obama can speak. This is a man who was born with a dais beneath his feet. But increasingly the question being asked of the new President is: can he manage?"
CLARENCE CENTER, N.Y. Feb. 18...On a gloomy Thursday afternoon (Feb. 12) a random sampling of Americans boarded Continental Connection Flight 3407 departing Newark Airport en route to Buffalo. Psychologist Mervyn Fliegel calls them "the givers."
"It is easy for the other side to advocate for higher taxes," Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House Republican whip, told a party retreat last weekend, "because you know what? They don't pay them." On his Fox News Channel talk show, Sean Hannity said:
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.
At OpEdNews: Endorsement: Howard Dean for Secretary of HHSHoward Dean would be the best....Everyone, including Obama, deep down knows this!
At OpEdNews: Whether Daschle Comes or Goes, the Healthcare Crisis Keeps on ComingHoward Dean would be the best....Everyone, including Obama, deep down knows this!
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.
Obama's 'Screw-Up' Leaves Geithner on Thin IcePresidential admissions of fallibility are about as common as humility on Wall Street -- until now.
The Pros and Cons of Admitting a Presidential ErrorTo anyone who has followed politics in Washington in recent years, the image of a sitting president admitting error is a striking shift. The presidencies of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were marked by the resistance of both men to confessing mistakes; Mr.
Geithner Skated, So Daschle Couldn't Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, certainly owes Tom Daschle an apology. Daschle fell on the sword so that Geithner didn't have to. Geithner is now lecturing CEO's on greed? TheCapitalist
Bill Bradley for HHS SecretaryMark Louis from Daily Kos shares his thoughts on why Bill Bradley would make an even better HHS Secretary than Tom Daschle would have. I hope Obama is considering him for the position!
At OpEdNews: The United States Needs Dr. Howard Dean as Health SecretaryThis would be a long overdue appointment; if E. Rahm objects this time, tell him to get over it for the good of the Nation, please!
Maureen Dowd: Well, That Certainly Didn't Take Long - Obama Comes Down to EarthTom Daschle's resignation finally shook the president out of his attitude that his circle doesn't have to follow the same rules as the rest of us.
I lost much more than just a nice chunk of change on that fateful Black Monday September the 15th. I heard John McCain say "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" and I lost my voice.
Today, former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle, who had been hand picked by President Obama to solve the nation's health care woes, resigned because of back-taxes he owed on undeclared income previously received.
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.
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