Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. Max Baucus [D, MT]

Veterans Day activities will feature role of women

2009-11-08T00:00:00Z

...Reserve during World War II. Gerardetta England of Browning, Spotted Wolf's daughter, also will give a few remarks. U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., also is scheduled to speak at the ceremony. The public is welcome and asked to bring lawn chairs for the e

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D.C.'s 'Failure to Launch' national health care policy

2009-11-08T00:00:00Z

...or employees will have to pay the added cost. This is where a proposal by the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., to sell low-premium, high-deductible "young invincibles" policies to young adults comes in handy. As Time magazi

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Obamacare: The low-down

2009-11-07T00:00:00Z

...94 prohibits buying private plans. Page 111 provides for taxpayer-funded abortions. Page 520 cuts Medicare dramatically. In Sen. Max Baucus' bill, page 683 cuts compensation for doctors who prescribe too much medicine. The Obamacare legislation taxes al

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What Health Care “Reform” Gives Us

2009-11-07T00:00:00Z

...$150 billion over a decade — nearly double the amount they conceded when they cut a White House-approved deal with Sen. Max Baucus this summer. The Pelosi bill is a prescription for fewer new life-saving drugs. By stifling innovation, it would hurt no

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McCain Says Health Care Bill Would Face Constitutional Challenge

2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

...judicial review of the provision mandating that individuals buy insurance if the bill were to be enacted. However, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont), chairman of the committee, ruled that Hatch’s amendment was out of order. In offering his amendment on O

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The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: The Grown Ups are Back in Charge

2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

...legislation." To no one's surprise, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) immediately complained about the legislation on Fox News. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) was the lone Democrat that did not vote, which Inhofe interpreted as a sign that the bill is "dead." Chairman B

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Senate Democrats disregard GOP boycott to pass greenhouse gas emissions bill

2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

...international climate talks next month in Copenhagen. Even as the panel approved the measure on a vote of 11 to 1 -- with Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) opposing it because he said it included climate targets that are too steep and would not do enough to pro

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Climate bill takes a step forward without GOP

2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

...encourage U.S. refiners to move operations overseas. The challenges were underscored Thursday by the “no” vote cast by Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, a moderate Democrat whose support is viewed as crucial for the legislation. Baucus was the lone Democr

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Senate panel OKs emissions bill

2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

...Committee approved a bill that aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions and boost investment in alternative energy technologies. Sen. Max Baucus, the Montana lawmaker who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, was the only Democrat to vote against the measure

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Real estatetax creditextendedto 2010?

2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

...five years. “We are still in a world of economic hurt, and Congress must continue to act boldly and creatively,” said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. “With the right mix of tax breaks and investments, we will ge

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Panel OKs climate bill with Republicans away

2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

...bill, make no mistake about it," she said. Boxer rejected Inhofe's claim that Thursday's vote violated any Senate rule. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who cast the lone "no" vote, said the target in the bill remained too high. Such a goal would require that

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Senate Democrats advance climate bill without GOP

2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

...a "nuclear option." He left shortly after making his statement. Of the 11 Democrats present at the vote, only one -- Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. -- voted against the legislation, saying that concerns he had with the bill were not fully addressed. The "yes"

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Senate Democrats Force Climate Bill Through Committee Despite Republican Boycott

2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

...Committee dismissed a Republican boycott of the panel's markup session and passed a climate change bill 11-1, with only Sen. Max Baucus of Montana opposing. When Republicans refused to attend markup sessions, committee chairwoman Sen. Barbara Boxer of C

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Who Needs the GOP?

2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

...needs two minority members present to advance a bill to the floor, called the vote Thursday "unprecedented." One Democrat, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., voted against the bill. Ten Democrats voted for it. "We are pleased that despite the Republican boy

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Congress giving homebuyers a $6,500 tax break

2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

...five years. "We are still in a world of economic hurt, and Congress must continue to act boldly and creatively," said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. "With the right mix of tax breaks and investments we will get throu

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House Votes To Expand Homebuyer Tax Credit

2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

Senate Democrats advance climate bill without GOP

2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

...the Republican boycott, we have had the will to move this bill forward." Of the 11 Democrats present at the vote, only one — Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. — voted against the legislation, saying that concerns he had with the bill were not fully addressed

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Senate Climate Bill Passes Panel, Baucus Only Dem Against It

2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

...said the move would signal "the death knell" for the Kerry-Boxer bill. Of the 11 Democrats present at the vote, only one – Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. – voted against the legislation, saying that concerns he had with the bill were not fully addressed.

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Senate Dems move climate bill without GOP members present

2009-11-05T00:00:00Z

...that the Senate is willing to move forward." In a Democrat-only vote, it was 10-1 in favor of reporting the bill, with Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the only "no." Mr. Baucus, who as chair of the Senate Finance Committee will wield sizable influence over th

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Arizona Republican Urges Democrats To Reverse Key Provision In Healthcare Bills

2009-11-04T00:00:00Z

...John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to exclude a provision that exempts insurance companies from tort claims from the proposed health care bills in the House and

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