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...President next week when they decide who should become their minority leader. The battle for the job pits two members who embody different skills and priorities. Connecticut's Christopher Dodd is seen as a tough fighter and good debater concerned first with his and his colleagues' survival. South Dakota's unpretentious Tom Daschle is better liked, but many Senators, including some who support him, worry that he is too willing to push Clinton's agenda...
...spoken with have expressed the need to establish our own identity so we're not seen as an extension of the White House." But Daschle not long ago seemed more concerned with the Clintons. "I've spent time with ((them)) in their private quarters," he told a South Dakota newspaper last December. "That relationship is a very thrilling part of my life in Washington, ((and)) I believe it's going to get even stronger and more personal as the years unfold...
...farm subsidies." Daschle says he "knows that everything has to be on the table, including farm programs," a stance that provokes laughter from his colleagues. "Come on," says one of Daschle's supporters. "Tom's tried to protect crops no one's ever heard of. He's from South Dakota. He represents acreage, not people. When the time comes to swipe at farm subsidies, Tom won't do it. He thinks he couldn't survive at home if he did, and he's probably right...
Another potential headache for Democrats is a recent New York Times story reporting that Daschle "intervened" to reduce government inspections of a South Dakota airline-charter company cited for its poor safety record. One of the company's planes crashed last February, killing three physicians working for the Federal Government. Daschle denies any wrongdoing, but several Senators fear that an ethics inquiry could prove especially embarrassing if Daschle is the Democratic leader at the time...
...between self-pity, rationalization and blaming others, and a clear, self- distanced reading of the voters' rejection of his party and many of his policies. Clinton followed the returns into the small hours of Wednesday morning, studying them by state and by district. He found some solace in North Dakota, a state he had lost by a wide margin in 1992, but where Democratic Senator Kent Conrad and Representative Earl Pomeroy managed to win re-election despite having supported Clinton's economic program...