Senator Thomas A. Daschle

Senator Daschle has participated in the development and debate of almost every major public policy issue of the last three decades. In 1978, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he served for eight years. In 1986, he was elected to the US Senate and was chosen as Senate Democratic Leader in 1994. He now leads The Daschle Group, a Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson in Washington, DC, where he advises clients on a broad array of key national issues. Senator Daschle is Chair of the board of directors at the Center for American Progress and the National Democratic Institute and serves on the boards of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, the LBJ Foundation, and the World Food Program USA. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. After graduating from South Dakota State University in 1969, he served as an intelligence officer in the US Air Force Strategic Command for three years.