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'Tis almost the season Nordstrom has opted not to deck its halls until after Thanksgiving, thus celebrating one holiday at a time. How wonderful! Thanks, Nordstrom. You've got class. Re: Nov. 22 article "Health care gets debate in Senate." Full Article at Austin American-Statesman
I argued in this piece for AEI’s The American online magazine that the health reform bill proposed by Sen. Max Baucus would reduce the 10-year budget deficit only through an accounting trick by which increased Social Security taxes – which should, you... Full Article at New Majority
WASHINGTON When Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. , this summer proposed a $4 billion tax on medical-device firms to help offset the cost of health-care reforms, an unusual mix of lawmakers joined in a chorus of protest. Full Article at The Tennessean
When Senate Democratic leaders first went behind closed doors to complete the health care legislation, the only women in the room were either committee staff members or officials from the White House. Full Article at The New York Times
On Friday, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden got the Senate health care duo, Max Baucus and Harry Reid, to agree that some workers who cannot afford their share of the premiums for employer coverage could shop in the government’s new brokerage service, called the... Full Article at Columbia Journalism Review
Sen. Max Baucus's Wednesday letter to the editor was nothing more than the Montana Democrat kissing up to a do-nothing Harry Reid. The question for Sen. Reid: Where are the jobs? Full Article at Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com
When Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) this summer proposed a $4 billion tax on medical-device firms to help offset the cost of health-care reforms, an unusual mix of lawmakers joined in a chorus of protest. Full Article at The Washington Post
Alaska - Mark Begich. Arkansas - Blanche Lincoln. Arkansas - Mark Pryor. Louisiana - Mary Landrieu. Missouri - Claire McCaskill. Montana - Max Baucus. Montana - Jon Tester. Nebraska - Ben Nelson. North Dakota - Kent Conrad. Full Article at Classical Values
Health Care Now Or Never Jon-Christopher Bua November 22, 2009 8:03 PM Recommend post (0) Late Saturday night the Democratic Leader of the Senate Harry Reid did something right out of "Mission Impossible." Full Article at Sky News
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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Saturday to begin full debate on major health care legislation, propelling President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative over a crucial, preliminary hurdle in a formidable display of muscle-flexing by the Democratic... Full Article at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted yesterday to begin full debate on major health-care legislation, propelling President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative over a crucial, preliminary hurdle in a formidable display of muscle-flexing by the Democratic... Full Article at Columbus Dispatch
bill to the floor, may yet have to sway one or more Republicans to his side to get the bill adopted. Full Article at The San Jose Mercury News
Gruber may be especially effusive. Full Article at Marc Ambinder
WASHINGTON — Sen. Max Baucus has helped carry health care reform this far. He's hoping he'll be in town today to make sure it moves forward in the face of fierce Republican opposition. Full Article at Salem Statesman-Journal
New York, NY (PRWEB) November 21, 2009 -- Eric J. Hall, president and chief executive officer of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) issued the following statement regarding the inclusion of cognitive impairment detection as part of the new... Full Article at Emediawire.com
HELENA (AP) U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, back in Montana on family business, intends to vote in favor of the Senate health care bill when it reaches a crucial weekend test in Washington, D.C. Baucus led a key piece of the Senate health care reform by... Full Article at Great Falls Tribune
Ron Wyden will have his day and, in somewhat scaled-down fashion, he'll have his way. Full Article at The New Republic
The Associated Press analysis is probably right about the public opinion poll that showed Sen. Max Baucus' sudden decline in popularity. Full Article at Great Falls Tribune
complete overhaul of this system that we need and deserve, you can ignore Democrats like Max Baucus, as well as Republicans like Mitch McConnell; they are wholly owned subsidiaries of the insurance and pharmaceutical corporations. Full Article at Bennington Banner
Max Sieben Baucus (born December 11, 1941) is the senior United States Senator from Montana and is a member of the Democratic Party. Baucus is currently chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Finance and the 7th-longest-serving current Senator. Full Article
WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) speaks during a hearing before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill October 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee continued to vote on amendments to healthcare reform legislation.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: Ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) waits for the beginning of a mark up hearing before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill October 1, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 16: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks with reporters about the health care compromise proposal by Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) after an event to encourage politicians to not forget young people during the debate on health care reform with at the U.S. Capti...
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 16: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks with reporters about the health care compromise proposal by Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) after an event to encourage politicians to not forget young people during the debate on health care reform with at the U.S. Capti...
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 14: U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) (C) arrives at the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) for a meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill September 14, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 14: U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) arrives at the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) for a meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill September 14, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 14: U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) arrives at the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) for a meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill September 14, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 14: U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) arrives at the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) for a meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill September 14, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 09: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT.) arrives for a statement where he announced plans to proceed with a comprehensive health care reform bill regardless of Republican support September 9, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - JUNE 22: (L-R) Barry Rand of AARP, U.S. President Barack Obama, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) leave the Diplomatic Reception Room after speaking about health care costs at the White House June 22, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - JUNE 22: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) walks away after speaking about health care costs, followed by Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) (R) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House June 22, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - JUNE 22: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) talks about health care costs as Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) (R) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) look on in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House June 22, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - JUNE 22: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) talks about health care costs as Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) (R) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) look on in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House June 22, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - JUNE 22: Barry Rand (2L) of AARP intoroduces U.S. President Barack Obama (L) as Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) (R) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) look on in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House June 22, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - JUNE 17: Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) (L) answers a reporters question as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson listens on June 17, 2009 in Washington, DC. The EPA announced the agency has determined that a public health emergency exists at the Libby asbestos site in northwest Montana.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - JUNE 17: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson (R) answers a reporters question as Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) listens on June 17, 2009 in Washington, DC. The EPA announced the agency has determined that a public health emergency exists at the Libby asbestos site in northwest Montana.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - JUNE 17: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (C) speaks as Senator Max Baucu (D-MT) (L) and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson listen on June 17, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - MARCH 31: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Bauccus (D-MT) questions witnesses during a hearing on TARP oversight on Captiol Hill March 31, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - MARCH 31: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Bauccus (D-MT) questions witnesses during a hearing on TARP oversight on Captiol Hill March 31, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - MARCH 31: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Bauccus (D-MT) questions witnesses during a hearing on TARP oversight on Captiol Hill March 31, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - MARCH 31: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Bauccus (D-MT) questions witnesses during a hearing on TARP oversight on Captiol Hill March 31, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. , left, and the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, listen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 17, 2009, during the committee's hearing on tax issues related to Ponzi schemes.
View Photo »In this Jan. 21, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. , top, listens to then Treasury Secretary- designate Timothy Geithner, foreground, on Capitol Hill in Washington during Geithner's nomination hearing before the committee.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - MARCH 5: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) delivers remarks during the opening session of the White House's forum on health care reform as Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) (C) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) watch in the East Room of the White House March 5, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. arrives in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2009, at the start of the White House Forum on Health Reform.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: Ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) waits for the beginning of a mark up hearing before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill October 1, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »As President Obama heads to the APEC leaders meeting later this week, I urge him to revitalise our relationship with these economies. Speak out. I urge the president to announce that the United States will be a robust participant in the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations
Clear differences have emerged among the Democratic chairmen of the six Senate committees with jurisdiction over climate change legislation. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Commerce Committee, who both represent sta...
As President Obama heads to the APEC leaders meeting later this week, I urge him to revitalise our relationship with these economies. Speak out. I urge the president to announce that the United States will be a robust participant in the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations
Max Baucus' no vote in the [EPW] Committee establishes Baucus as the bill's credible opposition, the representative of money and industry, especially with Republicans excusing themselves from the process through either the certainty of their opposition or, in the case of a boycott, their literal absence
I am going work to get climate legislation that can get 60 votes through the U.S. Senate and signed into law
Senate Democrats are hopeful that despite their acrimonious past, Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) can find middle ground on climate change legislation before electoral politics kills the issue for good next year ... Boxer and Baucu...
Warren Buffett is known for investing in the future of America, and you can be sure I'll be keeping a close eye to make sure Montana producers get a fair shake on shipping rates
I am told that Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) – who worked for months to get Olympia Snowe’s support for the bill and has consistently said a public option cannot pass the Senate – was apoplectic when Reid told him he wanted to include the public option.
We cannot afford a first step that takes us further away from a conceivable consensus on climate change
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said today that the Senate is unlikely to approve major health care legislation this year that includes a pure form of the controversial government-operated insurance program, following White House signals over the weekend that President Obama did n...
We cannot afford a first step that takes us further away from an achievable consensus on commonsense climate change legislation
That assertion by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., was a notable show of confidence coming in the midst of negotiations with Majority Leader Harry Reid and White House officials to finalize legislation that can satisfy liberal Democrats without alienating moderates — and get the 60 votes needed to advance in t...
We cannot avoid a first step that takes us further away from an achievable consensus from common-sense climate change legislation
At a luncheon behind closed doors, Democrats said, liberals made impassioned pleas for a new government insurance plan, and they challenged the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, to defend his bill, which has no such public option ... Among the outspoken champions...
Montana, with our resource-based, agriculture and tourism economies cannot afford the unmitigated impacts of climate change ... But we also cannot afford the unmitigated effects of climate change legislation.
What changed my mind was... we tried hard ... I put up my version of the public option in the committee for a vote. It got eight votes; that's called 'not enough.' And I know the president is for it, I know Chris Dodd is for it -- Max Baucus didn't speak against it; he just talked about the need to get ...
Montana can't afford the unmitigated impacts of climate change
Senate Democrats may widen insurance coverage in sweeping health legislation, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said Thursday, but they face a struggle to come up with ways to pay for the extra spending
The legislation before us today is about our economy ... Montana, with our resource-based agriculture and tourism economies, cannot afford the unmitigated impacts of climate change. But we also cannot afford the unmitigated effects of climate change legislation.
At a meeting last April with corporate lobbyists, aides to President Barack Obama and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) helped set in motion a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, primarily financed by industry groups, that has played a key role in bolstering public support for health care reform
Montana can't afford the unmitigated impacts of climate change ... But we also cannot afford the unmitigated effects of climate change legislation.
The good news in yesterday's Senate Finance Committee vote for health care reform was that Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine joined the effort and rewarded the push for bipartisan backing by President Obama and committee chairman Max Baucus. The bad news was the bill itself -- a small step forwa...
We’re united. We’re all together ... There may be some minor differences, but those all pale in comparison to how strongly we are working together, Sen. Dodd, myself, Sen. Reid and the White House, listening to all senators to get a good, solid bill that gets 60 votes.
The only people who will be at the negotiating table are Harry Reid, [Senate Finance Committee Chair] Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Sen. Chris Dodd and the White House.
Ours is a balanced plan that can pass the Senate ... Our bill should win the support of Republicans and Democrats alike.
- PublicOption4Us
7 hours ago
Does the Max Baucus health reform plan do enough for doctors? http://bit.ly/2mUsga
- mariaaoa 11 hours ago
- janicedwhs
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- stereogab
17 hours ago
Celebrate Sen. Max Baucus' birthday next week! ...only cost ya $250. http://bit.ly/78o0Ig
- jakebrewer 17 hours ago