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Thomas "Tom" Daschle is a Democratic policy advisor and politician who served as a US senator (D-SD) from 1986 to 2004, holding both minority and majority leader positions. He represented South Dakota in the US House from 1978 to 1986. He is now a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a senior policy advisor in Government Affairs at law firm DLA Piper; from 2005 to 2009 he was a special policy advisor at Alston & Bird LLP. Daschle is known for his expertise and advocacy on issues related to climate change, energy, health care, trade, financial services, and telecommunications. In 2007 he co-founded the Bipartisan Policy Center with George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and Howard Baker to promote cooperative approaches to public policy. He is the author of The US Senate: Fundamentals of American Government (2013) and Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever (2003).