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About New Leadership for America - Tom Daschle, Chairman  Putting to use experience gained from my career in the House and Senate, I established New Leadership for America in 2005 as the nation faces incredible challenges to leadership. As a country, we need leaders who will make bold decisions in favor of all Americans. We have huge problems to confront: -- This administration has proven itself unable to identify a credible way out of a poorly planned and ill-conceived war in Iraq -- Gas prices are out of control and hurting working families and small businesses, yet the Republican-controlled Congress once again failed to do anything serious to combat energy prices and our dependence on foreign oil. -- Everyday, more Americans lose their health insurance and are left one illness away from serious financial hardship to their families. -- And the most important, but least appreciated issue of the day -- the birth tax, the debt our children and grandchildren will shoulder -- continues to grow because of failed leadership in the White House. While we face these and other daunting challenges as a nation, I have great confidence in our future, and I plan to play a role in the search for answers. I can't and won't just walk away. Future generations deserve our commitment to identifying the issues, the solutions, and the leadership required to make this a better country. Reflecting the issues and goals important to me, New Leadership for America strives to further a progressive agenda that includes creating quality jobs for working people, protecting the promise of Social Security, promoting equal opportunity for all Americans, increasing access to quality affordable health care, and ensuring every child can have a quality public education. Reaching these goals requires electing great Democratic leaders to public office. New Leadership for America can foster these great candidates.  About Tom Daschle Tom Daschle was Democratic Leader in the Senate from 1994 to 2004. He is the third longest serving Senate leader in party history. He was born and raised in Aberdeen, South Dakota in a working class family and is the eldest of four brothers. He became the first person in his family to graduate from college when he earned a degree from South Dakota State University in 1969. After serving three years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command, Daschle spent five years as an aide to South Dakota Senator James Abourezk. He was elected to Congress for the first time in 1978 and served a total of four terms in the House. Daschle served 18 years in the Senate after winning election to that office in 1986. He is married to Linda Hall Daschle, has three children and four grandchildren. |
