Max Baucus

The Founding Fathers wrote into the Constitution a really crucial role for the Senate.

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've kept the peace since WWII. We lead. We help solve disputes between countries, upholding our values.

We do not want that.

Senator Baucus, the judge at the sentencing said you fell in love with this woman, you lost control. I am only giving you 7 years because you did not really harm the United States.

The most important geopolitical matter that crossed my desk during the 3 years I was there was TPP, and we blew it.

I believe it's one of the more important questions facing our country today.

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

I loved this job representing the United States in China. It is the best job I ever had.

The Senate has yet to speak on those two Chinese initiatives.

It is hard to know how that would play out because China is pretty conservative.

I say to them if you were to get into war with the U.S., every part of the China dream goes right to hell.

It will not work because they will not do it.

This is landmark legislation.

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…

This legislation sets forth the much-needed Executive-Congressional framework to ensure that both branches of government work to achieve the strongest possible outcomes in our trade agreements.

cyber theft by state actors is a major threat to U.S. economic and national security.

the budget for the NIIP O&M has been reduced by more than $9 million to a paltry $4 million for the past three fiscal years.

S. 715 directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer $150 million and any interest earned from the existing Reclamation Fund into the proposed fund annually through 2035.

Let me begin by thanking so many of my friends here: Senators Durbin, Carper, Hatch, and so many others. I must say to you, you have expressed your remarks, and they mean a lot to me. But they probably mean more to me than I think you…

I thank Senator Rockefeller for speaking today on this important issue. I have always admired the Senator's hard work and dedication to provide health coverage not just to the children of West Virginia but children across the United…

We critically need your help on mental health issues.

I hope that this practice will stop with Dr. Dynan's nomination.

We do talk a lot about helping to achieve parity between mental health and physical health, and we mean it when we say it.

We look forward to working with you to figure out how we really can fill the gap in retirement savings.