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to provide input to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team just days after the election, according to South Dakota newspaper publisher Allan Burke.
President-elect Barack Obama has decided to nominate former Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota as secretary of health and human services, and is leaning toward former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. as attorney general, people close to the transition said Wednesday.
President-elect Barack Obama has asked former Sen. Tom Daschle to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the South Dakota Democrat has accepted the offer to head the agency that will handle the new administration's signature initiatve to expand health insurance coverage, a Democrat familiar with the process said.
President-elect Barack Obama has asked former Sen. Tom Daschle to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the South Dakota Democrat has accepted the offer to head the agency that will handle the new administration's signature initiative to expand health insurance coverage, a Democrat familiar with the process said.
By selecting former Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) to head the Department of Health and Human Services, President-Elect Barack Obama has found a point person for sweeping health-care reform who also shares his bipartisan — read realistic — approach to politics.
President-elect Barack Obama has asked former Sen. Tom Daschle to serve as Secretary of , and the South Dakota Democrat has accepted the offer to head the agency that will handle the new administration's signature initiatve to expand health insurance coverage, a Democrat familiar with the process said.
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. He did not return home to South Dakota to live four years ago after he was narrowly ousted by Republican John Thune, who had argued that the Democrat was too much a party loyalist and out of touch with the ...
YANKTON, South Dakota (AP) - The democrat from Yankton says he doesn't want to saddle taxpayers with the expense of a recount. Moore lost by 214 votes.
South Dakota Senator John Thune is set to become a member of Senate Republican leadership after party elections this week.
At 4 o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon last year, a group of Iowa nursing home officials gathered at the South Dakota home of Tim Boyle, the owner of Grinnell’s Friendship Manor and several other Iowa care facilities.
Senator Thune says it will be good for South Dakota if he has a leadership post.