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      <excerpt>...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 &quot;young invincibles&quot; policies to young adults comes in handy. As Time magazi</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...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</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...$150 billion over a decade &#8212; 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</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...legislation.&quot; 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 &quot;dead.&quot; Chairman B</excerpt>
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      <title>The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: The Grown Ups are Back in Charge</title>
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      <excerpt>...encourage U.S. refiners to move operations overseas. The challenges were underscored Thursday by the &#8220;no&#8221; 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</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...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</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...five years. &#8220;We are still in a world of economic hurt, and Congress must continue to act boldly and creatively,&#8221; said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. &#8220;With the right mix of tax breaks and investments, we will ge</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...bill, make no mistake about it,&quot; she said. Boxer rejected Inhofe's claim that Thursday's vote violated any Senate rule. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who cast the lone &quot;no&quot; vote, said the target in the bill remained too high. Such a goal would require that </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...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</excerpt>
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