Daschle’s Five-Year, $9.5M Spending Spree

• By Chris Cillizza
• Roll Call Staff
• Feb. 26, 2004, Midnight

In the five years leading up to his re-election bid this year, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) spent $9.5 million on his political activities, roughly 40 percent of which was disbursed in 2003 alone, according to an analysis of reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.