Max Baucus

Why is it that the Senate spends so much time debating campaign contributions and campaign expenses at such astronomical and almost exponential rates so they can get elected but doesn't want to be here to do the Nation's work?

this is an important day. Today we are finally bringing to bear over eighteen months of hard work toward reforming the Federal Crop Insurance Program. This is an issue of vital importance to Montana. First, however, I urge my colleagues in…

I am totally confident that he fully supports the Administration's position. He believes that the bilateral agreement is an excellent one. He believes that it is vital that the Congress approve permanent normal trade relations status as…

I regret I was unable to vote on the Iran Nonproliferation Act and two judicial nominations, but it was necessary for me to be in Montana today. I traveled back to Montana to join with Montana farmers, Montana business people, and Montana…

I say we can, but it is going to take a lot of work.

Methamphetamine is a national problem. It is a State problem, but it is more a community solution.

Meth can actually cause more long-term damage to the body than cocaine or crack.

Methamphetamine users are often irritable and aggressive.

Success can be achieved. Meth can be defeated.

If you talk to your kids, the chances your kids will take drugs is 50 percent less than if you don't talk to them about drugs.

I must confess, I learned a lot about the scourge this past week when Gen. Barry McCaffrey was in Billings for a whole day and half the next day with his people, meeting with treatment people the whole time, various aspects of the people…

Methamphetamine is a powerful and addictive drug.

I express my support for this bill. This bill is not perfect. There are many of us in the Senate who have hoped we could have done more. I have argued that the Research and Development tax credit should be made permanent for many years…

The fact is, our farmers are in desperate straits, and this Congress is doing very little about it. It is that simple. No one can dispute that, and many of us are, quite frankly, concerned because the Senate is not doing enough. Because it…

I say, with all respect to my very good friend and colleague, that language refers to just spending the money that must be spent under ISTEA. There is no language there which addresses a reallocation of additional dollars. I must very…

I want to point out the provision referred to by the distinguished chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation in his own bill says clearly ``notwithstanding Public Law 105-178.'' Even though the law says differently…

I am very pleased to join my distinguished colleague, the esteemed Senator from Rhode Island, Senator Chafee, to safeguard the funding allocation of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century. We call it TEA 21, the Transportation…

I rise today to address recent developments in the world trading system that occurred over the past several days at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings. Since its birth in 1989, APEC has been a useful forum to advance…

I send a concurrent resolution establishing U.S. goals for the next round of global negotiations in the World Trade Organization to the desk. In 1994, seven hard years of talks culminated the Uruguay Round Agreement creating the WTO. The…

I again compliment my good friend, the Senator from Texas, as well as the chairman of the committee. The Senator from Texas offered this amendment last night, and at that time I explained we thought this was a very good amendment because…

with great respect, I must inform this body that this amendment is pure fiction. It is pure fiction because the House and the Senate this year have been using Congressional Budget Office baseline numbers to predict what the surplus is or…

we have not seen a copy of this amendment, but I assume it is the standard flat tax that has been discussed for years. If that is the case, then the net effect of it will be, for most income earners, most American taxpayers, in effect, a…

when we look at Asia these days, Americans' primary focus is on China and the many difficult challenges that we face in that relationship. Next on our list of what we are watching in the region is Japan where our economic and security…

I rise this morning to offer some thoughts on the negotiations towards China's WTO accession, in the aftermath of Premier Zhu Rongji's visit to the United States. This, I submit, is a question of fundamental importance to America's trade…

I rise to note that this week the world's finance ministers and central bank presidents have gathered in Washington for the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. I suspect that Secretary of the Treasury…