Topic: Max Baucus

Baucus, Inouye named for Obama budget talks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senators Daniel Inouye and Max Baucus will sit on a bipartisan negotiating team tasked with hammering out a plan to cut U.S. deficits, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said on Thursday.President Barack Obama hopes the group can come ...

Senator Baucus says will oppose deficit panel plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said on Thursday he will oppose a deficit reduction plan drafted by the co-chairmen of a presidential fiscal commission, becoming the third member of the panel to line up against it."The Deficit Commission ...

Max Baucus

Max Baucus is the Democratic senior United States Senator from Montana .Baucus was first elected to the Senate in 1978 , succeeding Richard Shoup . Baucus was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974 , and re-elected in 1976 . ...
"Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, DEFENDING recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana's US attorney, saying she was "highly qualified", but eventually withdrawing the nomination". "Baucus said he began dating former state office director Melodee Hanes after both were separated from ...
The Media disclosed on November 6 that Fortune list of Obama Government released by America Research Institution Sensitive Problems Center displays. The Vice-President Biden, always advertised himself as a blue-collar workers, only have $2.7 million about 184.3 thousand RMB in net assets, ...

CMS chief Dr. Berwick still may face hearings

Republicans in both the House and Senate are demanding hearings with Donald M. Berwick, MD, the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and at least one key committee Democrat indicated that the GOP may get its wish.. Dr. ...

Baucus offers revised tax bill

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus on Wednesday offered a revised proposal to extend jobless benefits that he said would also soften a provision raising taxes on investment managers.Baucus offered the new version after the Senate rejected an earlier ...
Conrad, Baucus and Durbin named to Obama's deficit panel Three senior Senate Democrats have been named to a bipartisan panel established by President Barack Obama to find a plan to wrestle the budget deficit under control.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has named ...

The Brooklyn Rail’s Player of the Year 2009

If 2008 was the year of the Western gunslinger showdowns-Hillary vs. For uniquely embodying the Democratic Party's dilemmas, Max Baucus is the Brooklyn Rail's 2009 Player of the Year.. Under Baucus' careful eye, the public option came into the Finance Committee like ...

Democrats' effort to renew U.S. estate tax fails

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An effort by Democrats to stop the repeal of a tax on wealthy estates in the United States has failed in the Senate, as Republicans blocked a renewal of the tax that expires in 15 days.Senate Finance Committee Chairman ...
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