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Max Baucus

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Max Baucus is a former U.S. Senator from Montana, serving from 1978 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, Baucus was known for his work on health care reform and tax policy. He played a significant role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act and was a key advocate for various economic initiatives during his tenure. Baucus also served as the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, where he influenced legislation related to taxation and trade. After leaving the Senate, he was appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to China, where he focused on strengthening U.S.-China relations.

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Sep 12, 2011

Where do we want to go? And do we want to have AMT indexed, for example?

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Sep 12, 2011

Which means that the Appropriations Committees of the Congress could decide to spend more on security than is allowed under the caps in the first 2 years?

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Sep 12, 2011

Are there any caps on war spending?

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Sep 6, 2011

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and a profundity of character.

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Aug 8, 2011

Max Baucus -- he's the chairman of the Finance Committee. He's known as someone -- liberals don't like this pick -- because he's known as someone who's prepared to talk about cutting Medicare, talk about entitlement reform.

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Aug 1, 2011

When speaking of the Royal Air Force before Parliament, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said: ``Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'' Churchill's words would ring true for the First Special…

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Jul 27, 2011

I rise today to discuss the FAA bill. On Friday, authorization for the Federal Aviation Administration was allowed to expire. Four thousand workers were placed on furlough. The airport and airways trust fund now lacks the authority to…

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Jul 25, 2011

The recent passage of these critical elements of TAA gives trade-affected workers a good opportunity to retrain and retool for the 21st century economy to get good jobs that keep them in the middle class.

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Jul 20, 2011

We must acknowledge that our proposal to fund the highway program at current levels would result in a $12 billion shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund.

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Jul 20, 2011

Either we hang together or most assuredly we are going to hang separately.

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Jul 20, 2011

I want to make it very clear that putting this off is not an option.

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Jul 20, 2011

We need a comprehensive, we need a bipartisan approach.

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Jul 20, 2011

I'd like to take a moment to point out to my colleagues that I have been calling for massive cuts to government spending for years now.

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Jul 20, 2011

If we proceed before we have identified funding, we will lose Republican support and kill the bill for this Congress, doing irreparable harm in the process.

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Jul 20, 2011

I am working very hard on the Finance Committee to find that money.

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Jul 20, 2011

The leading contender is the non-gas tax.

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Jul 20, 2011

If we don't have a modern infrastructure, we will be a second class nation some day.

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Jul 20, 2011

In America, people need a 21st century National network.

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Jul 20, 2011

We need a little more of that around here.

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Jul 20, 2011

The choice is ours to make. We need to plan for America's future.

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Jul 19, 2011

Four years ago, we attended the Montana Economic Development Summit, hosted by Montana Senator Max Baucus.

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Jul 19, 2011

Senator Baucus's Economic Development Summit is one of the only efficient ways for startup biotechnology companies in our State to connect with venture capitalists.

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Jul 12, 2011

We will experiment with this new regime here.

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