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Baucus Presses for Health Deal
rollcall.com - 7/9/2009
Baucus Presses for Health Deal
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Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) continued working with Republicans on a bipartisan health care bill Wednesday, despite an urgent warning from Senate Democratic leaders that the potential cost of wooing GOP votes could have a devastating effect on Democratic support for the measure. ...
blogs.tnr.com - 7/9/2009
Houston--er, Washington--We Have a Problem
— blogs.tnr.com — On Wednesday, according to a Capitol Hill source, the Senate Finance Committee distributed to its members a list of about twenty ways to help pay for health care reform. Everything you could imagine was on the list: Taxes on soda and cigarettes. More ... (more) Houston--er, Washington--We Have a Problem

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rollcall.com - 7/8/2009
Reid Loses Patience on Health Bill
— rollcall.com — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday strongly urged Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to drop a proposal to tax health benefits and stop chasing Republican votes on a massive health care reform bill. Reid, whose leadership is ... (more) Reid Loses Patience on Health Bill

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Hullabaloo - Bipartisan-Curious
digbysblog.blogspot.com - 7/10/2009
Hullabaloo - Bipartisan-Curious
— digbysblog.blogspot.com — It's Groundhog Day: One of the key Democratic senators whose vote remains up for grabs when it comes to health care reform urged his colleagues to continue to push for a bipartisan bill, even as party leadership said it was time to give up on ... (more) Hullabaloo - Bipartisan-Curious

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TPM Election Central:  Good Cop, Bad Cop? Baucus Says All Options Still On The Table

Balloon Juice:  Max Baucus Thinks That Unnecessary Republican Votes Are More Important Than Fixing Health Care

Political Animal:  Baucus keeps talks with GOP going

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Good Cop, Bad Cop? Baucus Says All Options Still On The Table
TPM Election Central — ... After telling Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) to put a public option in his health care bill, and strip it of a financing provision that would tax employer-provided health care benefits, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to assure Republicans that he wasn't abandoning bipartisanship. Now, Baucus is saying much the same. ...

Max Baucus Thinks That Unnecessary Republican Votes Are More Important Than Fixing Health Care
Balloon Juice — ... Roll Call reports today that Baucus “continued working with Republicans on a bipartisan health care bill Wednesday, despite an urgent warning from Senate Democratic leaders that the potential cost of wooing GOP votes could have a devastating effect on Democratic support for the measure.” ...

Baucus keeps talks with GOP going
Political Animal — ... " Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to stop investing so much energy in reaching out to Republicans. It was an encouraging development. And yet, Roll Call reports today that Baucus "continued working with Republicans on a bipartisan health care bill Wednesday, despite an urgent warning from Senate Democratic leaders that the potential cost of wooing GOP votes could have a devastating effect on Democratic support for the measure." Apparently, as Baucus sees it, the opinions of his leadership and the White House are nice, but if he make the bill just bad ...

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