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DASCHLE ON SPENDING "SPREE" Daschle’s Five-Year, $9.5M Spending Spree February 26, 2004 By Chris Cillizza, Roll Call Staff 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. From Jan. 1, 1999, to Dec. 31, 2003, Daschle spent $4.6 million from his personal campaign account, the highest total of any of the 34 incumbents up for re-election in November. He also disbursed roughly...