Thomas Daschle is a special policy advisor at Alston & Bird and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for American Progress. He is the only senator to have served twice as both Majority and Minority Leader. Senator Daschle served his home state, South Dakota, in the Senate from 1987 to 2005. He was the National Co-Chair of Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign and continues to be a leading advocate for universal health care. In addition, Mr. Daschle co-chaired ONE Vote ’08 initiative and co-founded the Bipartisan Policy Center. He also authored Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever and co-authored Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of the National Democratic Institute.
