Daschle Does D.C. - Minority Leader Livin' Large (in $2.25 million seven-bedroom house)

Senator Tom Daschle may earn a meager salary of $171,900, but together with lobbyist wife Linda, he's got enough to live large. The Daschles are currently under contract to buy a $2.25 million seven-bedroom house on Washington D.C.'s ritzy Foxhall Road, according to local sources. The property itself is described as a French country colonial home, with four stories, and a 12,855 square-foot yard with a heated pool. The home the Daschles are selling is a considerably more modest three-bedroom $739,000 townhouse.


Daschle, who suffered an acute case of foot-in-the-mouth-disease last month when he said President George W. Bush "failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to go to war," later admitted that his criticism was ill timed. Now he's busy extinguishing another fire: This one's in South Dakota, where the diocese of Sioux Falls requested he remove references to his standing as a member of the Catholic Church from his biography and campaign documents, according to a Weekly Standard report. The diocese reportedly believes Daschle's pro-choice stance conflicts with his Catholic faith.