Who was the senate majority leader on september 12, 2001

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.

Where does tom daschle live now

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