Posts Tagged ‘ Max Baucus ’

In a surprising and welcome turnaround, The Hill reports that Harry Reid is rejecting the Baucus bipartisan jobs bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is rewriting a jobs bill after Democrats complained of too many concessions to Republicans.   Reid announced Thursday that he would cut back on the jobs...
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Maybe he's trying to make up for the mess he made of healthcare, or maybe it's just the ego trip of having his name on every signficant bill, but Baucus is getting in the way again: Sens. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and Dick Durbin of Illinois have been working intensely on...
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What a victory for the American people! But particularly for the people of Libby, Montana (and they needed one) and Nebraska. Here's the Montana angle: WASHINGTON — Buried in the deal-clinching health care package that Senate Democrats unveiled over the weekend is an inconspicuous proposal expanding Medicare to cover certain victims of...
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Add Max Baucus to the list of all-too typical politicians : Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus’ office confirmed late Friday night that the Montana Democrat was carrying on an affair with his state office director, Melodee Hanes, when he nominated her to be U.S. attorney in Montana. According to a...
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This from ABC's Jonathon Karl is fun: I am told that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is leaning toward including the creation of a new government-run insurance program – the so-called public option – in the health care reform bill he will bring to the full Senate in the coming weeks. ...
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Sometimes you have to wonder if Max Baucus really understands the whole point of healthcare reform. Via John Cole, here's yet another demonstration that he just doesn't get that so many people are uninsured and underinsured because we just can't afford insurance. Fewer middle-income families would qualify for tax credits to purchase...
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Apparently Max Baucus thinks he solved the healthcare crisis because Olympia Snowe says so. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) staked a powerful claim Tuesday that his health care bill is about as far as his party is willing to go in turning the president’s vision of reform into reality. ...
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There's been a question floating around since AHIP released the deceptive report from PWC about the Baucus bill: would the fact that AHIP hated it make liberals like it? Ezra was one of the first, saying the report might have another impact, too: The evident anger and fear of the insurance industry...
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The Max Baucus Society for Creative Procrastination, aka the Senate Finance Committee, finally moves this morning on its final votes on the health insurance reform bill. Three months later and five steps back from where everybody else who's touched the bill ended up. Important! Serious! When we last left our heroes, they...
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Unfortunately for anyone hoping for some accountability today, Sen. Max Baucus doesn't face reelection until 2014. Give a senator that much job security, and you're not going to get much responsiveness. He's accountable to his voters just every six years. He checks in with his lobbyist pals every day. But one thing is...
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