Max Baucus: “I have spoken to the sponsors and asked them to rewrite that amendment and talk to the Joint Committee on Taxation to…”

“I have spoken to the sponsors and asked them to rewrite that amendment and talk to the Joint Committee on Taxation to get the score down to about $1 billion, and they are working on that right now. I very much hope they can get that amendment down to a billion because then it would be in a much more acceptable form. But right now, the size and scope of it is just too large. And I think it is appropriate, when we consider these tax amendments, to be somewhat prudent when we consider them and not go overboard. I do believe the current scope of the Voinovich amendment is too large, and they are very agreeable and are working with Joint Tax in amending the language to get it down to about $1 billion over 10 years.”