Max Baucus

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• An Open Letter to Harry Reid on Controlling Health Care Costs

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 439
  Wrap these reforms together -- a public option open to everyone (allow states to opt out of this if they dare), Medicare-negotiated drug benefits, no 12-year monopoly for new drugs, and a major... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Time to throw HR 3962 in the medical waste and the days single payer news

  
  Corrente — Authority: 623
  ubetchaiam For those who argued we should just pass SOMETHING, even if it was a bad bill, because they said we could fix it later, this is what you get from a strategy of perpetual compromise, a bill that is utterly beyond redemption. It’s time to throw HR 3962 in the medical waste bin, and do what should have ...
  2 days ago

• Senate Public Option Scoreboard — On the Fence

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 767
  On the Fence Likely Supporters Likely Opponents 10 50 40 On the Fence Senator Stance Role in Debate Max Baucus (D-Mont.) “The major overall goal here though is to get health care reform that passes the Senate, gets 60 votes, and I just don’t know if there is 60 ...
  3 days ago

• Was That Christmas Toy Made by Children or Slaves?

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 549
  Inhale near a mall and the Oriental Trading Company will put you on its mailing list. OTC, in case you’ve haven’t inhaled near a mall over the past 15 years, is a mail-order catalog warehouse operation selling kids’ toys at ridiculously inexpensive prices. “Wow,” you may ask yourself as you flip through ...
  4 days ago

• You Must Go To Jail

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 534
  Since we got out of jail, we’ve been surprised by how much our 24-hour lock-up impresses people. “Wow, you sure are brave,” many have said. “I can’t believe you did that. Did you know you’d get arrested?” Of course we did. That was the point. On the morning of October 28, nine of us staged a sit-in ...
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• More Trade News

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  My colleague Dan Griswold pointed out yesterday some unfortunate editing in the Washington Post. Here are a couple of other trade-related items in the news recently: Sen. Max Baucus (D, MT and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee) has seemingly thrown his weight behind the idea of “border measures” ...
  5 days ago

• Former State Land Commissioner and Others Voice Support for Bingaman Conservation Bill S. 2747

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 158
  Original Author:  Democracy for New Mexico L to R: Michelle Otero (Connecting Community Voices), Ray Powell (former NM State Lands Commissioner), Van Ann Moore (Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Trail Association), Jerry Ortiz y Pino (NM State Senator, Albuquerque), and ...
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• Reinforcing the Progressives

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  Yesterday I used my Chutzpah of the Week award to call attention to the nine Democrats in the House of Representatives who voted against health care reform in betrayal of their representation of a sizable portion of their electorate currently without any form of health insurance. Having done this, I should ...
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• Clinton hopes for success where his effort failed

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 691
  Former President Bill Clinton is clearly hoping that Congress succeeds this time around where his administration failed 15 years ago. And perfection is not required — just get healthcare reform done. That was Clinton’s message to Senate Democrats who are now behind the steering wheel in trying to move ...
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• What’s Up with the Senate?

  
  Climate Change — Authority: 418
  There’s been a lot of hoopla recently about the question of whether or not Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen.  He settled that yesterday by saying that he would go if he’s needed to finalize an agreement.  This story from Reuters quotes the President:  “If I am confident that all of the countries involved ...
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• Bill Clinton Urges Senate Dems to Support Health Care Reform

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 731
  Arguing that “the worst thing to do is nothing,” former President Bill Clinton rounded up Senate Democrats for a talking-to about their upcoming vote on the health care reform legislation passed by the House of Representatives last weekend. Clinton emphasized the need for action and reminded his audience that ...
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• Baucus wants border measures in climate bill

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 665
  Uh-oh.  Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) is raising the stakes on a U.S. climate bill by endorsing the idea of some sort of tariff on goods from countries that haven’t taken steps to suppress fossil fuel use.  According to Reuters, Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, yesterday said: “We must push ...
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• Boxer: Senate Has the Votes to Kill Stupak

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  Sen. Barbara Boxer said today in an interview with HuffPos Sam Stein and Ryan Grim that efforts to add Stupaks Coathanger amendment in the Senate would very likely fail. "If someone wants to offer this very radical amendment, which would really tear apart [a decades-long] compromise, then I think at that point ...
  6 days ago

• Barbara Boxer Used Nuclear Option to Push Cap and Trade Through Committee

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 530
  Last Thursday while we all focused on the House Health care bill, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chair of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee used the "nuclear option" to push the Cap-and-Trade climate bill out of committee. The nuclear option is when a party proceeds without the minority party and ...
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• Former Baucus Staffers Lobby on Climate Bill

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 767
  Over a complete Republican boycott, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed its climate bill last week by a vote of 11-1. The lone dissenter was Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) — a name you’ll be hearing a lot more if you’re keeping tabs on the climate debate. Baucus chairs the powerful Finance ...
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• Employment bill called ‘corporate giveaway’

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 675
  WASHINGTON– Last week, as House Democrats took to the floor with near-unanimous praise for legislation to help the unemployed and stimulate the fragile economy, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) offered a wildly different message. “This bill,” he said, “represents a textbook example of how not to deal with the ...
  1 week ago

• Employment Bill Called ‘Corporate Giveaway’

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 767
  Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) Last week, as House Democrats took to the floor with near-unanimous praise for legislation to help the unemployed and stimulate the fragile economy, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) offered a wildly different message. “This bill,” he said, “represents a textbook example of how not ...
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• The Coming Train Wreck

  
  JammieWearingFool — Authority: 721
  We report. You decide.Shutting off the miracle-drug spigotHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right last week when she called her latest health-care-reform proposal a "historic moment": After decades of life-saving and cost-cutting scientific innovations from drug and medical-device companies, the government is about to ...
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• Congressional Roundup: Health care vote Saturday

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 598
  Although some news outlets reported that there would be no vote on health care legislation until Sunday, a unnamed House Aide told MSNBC’s First Read that there will be a vote tomorrow in the House on health care reform. One New Mexico Congressman, Harry Teague, says he will vote against the bill. From MSNBC: ...
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• Senate Finance Committee to Hold Hearing Tuesday on Climate Legislation

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 537
  The hearing will be Tuesday November 10th at 10am. Via the Senate Finance Committee Website , here are the witnesses: Mr. Abraham Breehey, Director, Legislative Affairs, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers, Department of Government Affairs, Fairfax, VA Ms. ...
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