Max Baucus

Let me take a moment to explain why that use of the emergency designation is entirely appropriate. First, the concluding section of the amendment designates two items as emergency items. Those items are unemployment insurance and…

It is strange to me that he wants to relitigate health care reform. But it is not so strange because I know that that is the tack the other side is going to be taking for the rest of this year. At every opportunity, Senators on the other…

The Republican leader said the premiums would go up for some Americans. What the Republican leader did not say is the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that health care reform would lower premiums for the overwhelming majority…

I think it would be better if the United States could avoid borrowing so much. It is unfortunate the United States has borrowed a lot to run its affairs. So have other countries, I might add. It is not just the United States. There are…

I rise to recognize the sacrifice of the thousands of men and women serving in harm's way overseas and to introduce legislation that will help these brave men and women when they return home. I recently led a congressional delegation to…

Support the Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care Improvement Act of 2010.

I have supported offshore oil and gas development for many years, and I expect to continue to do so.

I cannot understand why a more detailed environmental review was not conducted that might have led to extra precautions.

What is the 30 days? Is that a statutory requirement?

Why then was a categorical exclusion used at this site, and what is MMS doing to ensure that our most special places are protected?

But that doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be, maybe it does, a categorical exclusion, does it?

It is our responsibility to make sure that as we move forward with offshore oil and gas developments we are doing so with the utmost care to preclude this type of catastrophe.

When we see the words park, wilderness areas, or wildlife refuge, we know what they mean.

I thank you and Secretary Sebelius and the Administration for the declaration of public health urgency.

The catastrophic consequences of this incident compel us to pause, to evaluate what happened, and to make corrections so this does not happen again.

I rise today to introduce legislation with my colleagues Senator Crapo and Senator Tester that will establish a single definition of renewable biomass for the purposes of the Renewable Fuel Standard, RFS, a future Renewable Electricity…

Today we are gathered for one reason, and that is we need to answers to the question what went wrong.

It just seems like a lot of mistakes were made.

The whole thing is life is, if you can do it right, do it right the first time.

I am not convinced, based upon the press reports I have read, that sufficient precautions were taken.

I rise today to introduce the Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement Act, along with my good friend, Senator Tester. We introduce this bill as a critical step in 2 decades of negotiations between the Blackfeet Nation, the State of Montana, and…

One of Aesop's Fables teaches us, ``In union there is strength.'' In 2009, Haiti's future was beginning to strengthen. A U.S. trade preference program, known as the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act, or…

Passing S. 3075 is a critical step toward implementing the International Flathead Agreement.

This legislation and all our joint efforts... is strongly, strongly endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce, by all business groups.

British Columbia announced its intent to prevent mining and oil and gas and coalbed methane development in the Watershed.