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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.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: Our capacity is limited only by our ability to work together. What is needed is the will. I have just returned from a week at home in Montana traveling from Fort Benton to Billings to Bozeman. I visited with…
The actions of the past few weeks, the extremism of a small core of members in the House of Representatives, have crippled Congress and put our Nation on a very perilous path.
We cannot let that happen. We have a responsibility to avoid another economic disaster.
Yet today, a small group of hardliners is using our economy as a bargaining chip to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Now is the time for Congress to come together and do what is right for our Nation.
I wish to underline the gravity of the financial condition our country is headed to at this point. I think in the back-and-forth we tend to overlook just how serious this matter is. Here in the Capitol we walk in the footprints of our…
I certainly will not object to that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Montana.
Very briefly, in addition, there have been other instances when pressure was being built up, people did not heed warnings, they let fate tempt them, and the result was collapse. There have been financial bubbles. The tulip bubble, for…
For this hour of majority time, I ask unanimous consent that the following Senators have 20 minutes each: Senator Baucus, Senator Franken, and Senator Leahy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
On September 26, 1987, 26 years ago this very day, President Reagan faced a Congress playing politics with the Nation's debt ceiling. Knowing the catastrophic consequences a default would have on America's economy, President Reagan…
Your goal is to sustain current levels of construction and repair, or do you want to boost?
I ask unanimous consent that the following staff of the Finance Committee be allowed the privilege of the floor for the remainder of the 113th Session: Kevin McNellis, Carly Borth, Stephen Jenkins, Sibyl Tilson, Taylor Harvey, Matthew…
I commend to basically the Congress the question, what is the best way to take this on politically.
I rise today, as I often do, with a quote. It comes from a conservative leader speaking out about a new health care law. He said: We are against forcing all citizens, regardless of need, into a compulsory government program. He went on to…
I deeply thank and am humbled by the senior Senator from Maryland. Coming from her, that is a high compliment, and I deeply appreciate it.
It is going to be difficult to pass tax reform this year, but I think it is quite possible to get tax reform passed in this Congress, next year.
I think that is the charge that you need to give all of us as we move forward, is to give you that grass roots support for this kind of investment.
I ask unanimous consent that after I finish speaking, the Senator from Maryland Senator Mikulski would have the floor for 15 minutes, and then Senator Alexander from Tennessee be yielded the floor for 20 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER…
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