Max Baucus: “We are dedicated that any new revenues that come from... would all be dedicated to transportation.”

This is not a fixable Washington problem. This is a condition, like a chronic condition, that we are going to have to cope with.

We Americans pride ourselves on our western Judeo-Christian values and democracy.

They will not because the Chinese have a neuralgic fixation on the status quo and stability within China.

Sometime back, Senator Max Baucus, now the Ambassador to China, and I went down--we did not tell anybody; we just went down--and for 18 hours discovered the world according to Fidel Castro, and then also with an ag group trying to…