Max Baucus

In 2009, we did not like the future we saw for a health care system based on a fee-for-service payment model.

I ask unanimous consent that the following staff of the Finance Committee be granted the privilege of the floor for the remainder of the 2013 calendar year: Melanie Rainer, Erik Hansen, Swarna Vallurupalli, Anderson Heiman, Tyler…

earlier today I spoke in support of Jack Lew's nomination to be the next Treasury Secretary. Over the last 6 hours or so some have come to the Senate floor to question Mr. Lew's character, claiming he has not been forthcoming throughout…

As Senator Baucus said, we have more than 250 ACOs operating within the traditional fee-for-service Medicare program, serving more than 4 million Medicare beneficiaries.

So, with the Affordable Care Act, we created new and better ways to deliver health care, save taxpayers dollars, and improve patient care.

I am hopeful that we will hold another hearing this spring that focuses exclusively on CMMI.

I ask unanimous consent that there be 10 minutes remaining for debate, equally divided in the usual form, on the Lew nomination; that following the use or yielding back of time, the Senate proceed to vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

the Committee on Finance has adopted rules governing its procedures for the 113th Congress. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 2, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that the accompanying rules for the Senate…

Together, with interest savings, these actions will cut the deficit by $2.5 trillion over the next 10 years.

I have serious reservations regarding Mr. Lew.

Cuts to national parks hit home in our State, because 64,000 Montana jobs depend directly on outdoor recreation.

These are real people with bills to pay and families to care for.

If Mr. Lew is committed to playing the same partisan games... we are going to have serious difficulties.

Eighty-five billion dollars in Federal spending will be sliced from thousands of programs.

The uncertainty over how these and other cuts will play out is weighing heavily on businesses.

The only way we will be able to get past these budget battles is by working together.

We need to take a scalpel to waste and inefficiency, not allow a hatchet to hack into American jobs.

It is time Washington started listening, they say.

This is no way to run a country.

I intend to vote today in favor of Mr. Lew's confirmation.

They want us to work together and get our act together.

I strongly disagree with Mr. Lew on some significant policy issues.

Farmers and ranchers have a better perspective on life. They are more philosophical.

First of all, the numbers are good. Second, it is permanent.

Thanks for what you do.