New York Times: Senate Confirmation Hearing - Tom Daschle

From The New York Times: The following is a transcript of the senate confirmation hearing nominating Senator Tom Daschle as Secretary of Heath and Human Services, as provided by CQ Transcriptions.

KENNEDY: We have a wonderful turnout of the members of the committee, and we have an extraordinary panel here that has had an incredible life and commitment to health and human services, and we are just delighted that they're here.

We'll look forward to what their statement or testimony, and then we'll -- we'll proceed with Senator -- our senators right after that. So we will recognize Senator Dole first.

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