time.com - 3/26/2009
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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 later, it was Baucus who helped Republicans pass ...
swampland.blogs.time.com - 3/26/2009
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swampland.blogs.time.com —
For the new issue of dead-tree TIME, I
have written this short profile of Senate Finance Committee...
Chairman Max Baucus, a most unlikely figure to have emerged as the point man for health care reform in the Senate. (The print version also has a chart ...
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Max Baucus and the "Public Plan"
forbes.com - 3/24/2009
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forbes.com —
An honest politician, as an old saw has
it, is one who stays bought. If this is...
true, then we have the most dishonest bunch of officeholders ever, and it may lead Wall Street to reconsider its donations in the future. AIG, for example, was a huge ...
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Money For Nothing
breitbart.com - 4/1/2009
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breitbart.com —
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health and Human Services nominee
Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns...
and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors"the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration ...
(more)
Sebelius admits errors, pays $7,000 in back taxes
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Max Baucus and the "Public Plan"
Swampland —
... For the new issue of dead-tree TIME, I have written this short profile of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a most unlikely figure to have emerged as the point man for health care reform in the Senate. (The print version also has a chart detailing the highlights of Baucus' own health reform proposal, which you can read about in detail in the ...
Linda Bergthold: No recovery in sight -- unless we pass health reform
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The President and the Democratic leaders in Congress agree that it's an urgent problem. Intense efforts are underway in the House and the Senate right now to write a health reform bill that can be signed by the President before the end of the Summer. The urgency is there for a variety of obvious reasons -- for the reasons outlined in this new study, but also because once Congress returns from its August recess, half of the House start running for re-election in 2010. In past years, that phenomenom has caused good pieces of legislation to languish and even die in the latter ...
Linda Bergthold: No Recovery in Sight -- Unless We Pass Health Reform
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The president and the Democratic leaders in Congress agree that it's an urgent problem. Intense efforts are underway in the House and the Senate right now to write a health reform bill that can be signed by the president before the end of the Summer. The urgency is there for a variety of obvious reasons -- for the reasons outlined in this new study, but also because once Congress returns from its August recess, half of the House start running for re-election in 2010. In past years, that phenomenon has caused good pieces of legislation to languish and even die in the latter ...
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