The budget talks "have already achieved a balanced budget, " Senate Minority Leader Thomas Daschle, D-South Dakota, said at a briefing Wednesday afternoon.

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Thomas Daschle (D-SD) on C-Span saying they will fight for more money for farmers when they come back since they lost to a filibuster by the GOP last week.

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Former Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle, a co-chair of the Obama campaign, put it well on a Sunday morning talk show.

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