thehill.com - 11/17/2008
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) will sit down with Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and other key senators Tuesday to begin divvying up jurisdiction over the coming legislative push on healthcare reform. “The healthcare system is broken for individual Americans and it's ...
prospect.org - 11/13/2008
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prospect.org —
I'm going to split my commentary on Max
Baucus's policy paper (pdf) into two posts: The plan...
and the politics. First, the plan: Do not think of this as Max Baucus's health care plan. It isn't. Not yet. As of now, it's a policy paper, not a ...
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THE BAUCUS WHITE PAPER: THE PLAN.
blogs.tnr.com - 11/12/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
As reported in this week's edition , Max
Baucus and his staff at the Senate Finance Committee...
have been working on health care reform since the beginning of summer. Today, he will publish a preliminary outline of what he has in mind. Afterwards, he ...
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Health Care to the Max: Baucus Plan Out (Updated)
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/20/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
BRINGING ALL THE HEALTHCARE PIECES TOGETHER.... Following up
on Hilzoy's overnight item, momentum for major healthcare reform...
in the next Congress got a little stronger yesterday, when the health insurance industry said it would support extending ...
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Bringing all the healthcare pieces together
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MIDDAY ROUNDUP
News —
... – New York Times Baucus-Kennedy Healthcare Powwow Tuesday – The Hill - Michael O'Brien
Kennedy Returns to the Hill
Swampland —
... Teddy Kennedy made a quiet return to Capitol Hill this morning, coming in to his offices in the Russell Office Building. The lion, who is suffering from a brain tumor, is working on healthcare legislation and is meeting tomorrow with Montana Senator Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee who is holding his first hearing on a comprehensive frame work for universal healthcare Wednesday. ...
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time.com 3/26/2009 — Among Democrats, Max Baucus is known mostly for his apostasies. So crucial was the Montana Senator to passing George W. Bush's tax cuts in 2001 that he was rewarded with a prime spot at the signing ceremony in the White House East Room. Two years ...
Baucus's Bad News Week
dailykos.com 7/27/2009 — You don't generally think of Max Baucus as a headline-seeking kind of legislator. He's not the guy showing up every Sunday on the talk shows, or getting into every Washington Post story to weigh in on the issue of the day. So you don't see a lot of ...
Do Baucus' Ties To Health Care Industry Compromise His Reform Efforts?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 7/7/2009 — If you're a long-time politico, you may have seen it coming: Standing between progressives and fundamental health care reform is a 30-year Senate veteran with a reputation cemented long ago as a deal-maker -- or less charitably, as a sellout. ...
Baucus Battered By Voters For Health Care Stand
huffingtonpost.com 6/1/2009 — Sen. Max Baucus got some not-so friendly advice from his Montana constituents last week as he works to reform the health care system: You're doing it all wrong. Baucus, the chair of the Finance Committee and the leader of reform efforts in the Senate, ...
Baucus the "Power Broker" Breaking his Base?
dailykos.com 8/3/2009 — Matthew Frank's profile of Max Baucus in the Missoula Independent goes a long way to explaining how this unlikeliest of small state Senators finds himself at the center of the most important public policy debate of a generation. The profile shows ...
What Baucus Got Right
politics.theatlantic.com 9/18/2009 — Liberal critics of the proposal Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont) released this week see it as a dead end in the health care reform debate. But if President Obama actually signs legislation revamping the health care system, it's ...
Who Has Access To Max Baucus?
npr.org 7/24/2009 — Max Baucus is the nexus of dozens, even hundreds of interests in the health-care bill. In Congress since 1975, he's learned how to build relationships and how to leverage them. Baucus described his methods last spring, in a talk hosted by the Kaiser ...
Baucus Health Plan
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 11/13/2008 —
One of my first print articles ever was dedicated to bashing Max Baucus so let’s say I’m a Max Baucus skeptic. But earlier today while I was out on the Toblerone Line (anti-tank fortifications, not candy) and the global financial ...
What happened to Baucus?
washingtonmonthly.com 9/4/2009 — WHAT HAPPENED TO BAUCUS?.... Marcy Wheeler had a terrific item yesterday, summarizing a point that's been circulating a bit: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D) of Montana used to have a great health care plan. On November 12, 2008,...
And. Here. We. Go.
swampland.blogs.time.com 4/20/2009 — Though we've known for a while that Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus were aiming for a June mark up of health care reform legislation, they today sent an official letter (full text after the jump) to President Obama underscoring this intention. The key ...
Kennedy returns to Capitol Hill —
First Read 11/17/2008
From NBC's Ken Strickland and Domenico MontanaroSen. Ted Kennedy returned to Capitol Hill today and briefly took questions. Kennedy, who is pushing his health-care reform plan, said he felt fine. The Massachusetts senator said he is confident ...
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