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• Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) In Iraq

  Published: September 16, 2007, 9:36 am

  Tags: Iraq, Max Baucus, Feingold Reid

  Max Baucus (D-MT) is the only member of the Senate to have lost a relative in the Iraq War. His nephew, Marine Cpl. Philip E. Baucus, was killed in Al Anbar province last year. He was just 28 years old. Senator Baucus is in Iraq this weekend, along with Senators Ken Salazar (D-CO), Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME).  It is

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• Bush vetoes SCHIP

  Published: October 3, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Schip, Mt Sen, Montana, Senate, Max Baucus, George W Bush

  like this one for Montana's Max Baucus: This really will be the gift that keeps on giving all cycle, as Democrats gear up to make it a defining issue in 2008. That party line, of course, is coming straight from the top, and many observers think it will come back to haunt the entire GOP a year from now. While the bill passed both chambers of

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• Disaster Farm Fund Approved

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Disaster, Farm, Fund, Approved, Kent Conrad, Max Baucus, Tom Harkin, Chuck Grassley, R Bruce Josten, Environmental Working Group, Internal Revenue Service, U S Chamber Of Commerce, U S Senate Committee On Finance, Washington Dc

  Tapping savings resulting from tighter tax rules on business, the Senate Finance Committee yesterday approved the creation of a $5 billion fund that would compensate farmers hit by weather-related losses over the next five years.

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• Disaster Farm Fund Approved

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Disaster, Farm, Fund, Approved, Kent Conrad, Max Baucus, Tom Harkin, Chuck Grassley, R Bruce Josten, Environmental Working Group, Internal Revenue Service, U S Chamber Of Commerce, U S Senate Committee On Finance, Washington Dc

  Tapping savings resulting from tighter tax rules on business, the Senate Finance Committee yesterday approved the creation of a $5 billion fund that would compensate farmers hit by weather-related losses over the next five years.

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• House Rejects IRS Program

  Published: October 11, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: House, Rejects, Irs, Program, Internal Revenue Service, Jeff Trinca, Jim Mccrery, Max Baucus, National Treasury Employees Union, Iowa, Capitol Hill, Charles Rangel, Chris Van Hollen, Chuck Grassley, Colleen M Kelley, Kevin Brady, Steny Hoyer, Stephen Barr, The White House

  The House voted yesterday to kill an Internal Revenue Service program that uses private companies to track down delinquent taxpayers and lets the companies keep a percentage of the taxes they collect. The vote, generally on party lines, was 232 to 173.

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• House Rejects IRS Program

  Published: October 11, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: House, Rejects, Irs, Program, Internal Revenue Service, Jeff Trinca, Jim Mccrery, Max Baucus, National Treasury Employees Union, Iowa, Capitol Hill, Charles Rangel, Chris Van Hollen, Chuck Grassley, Colleen M Kelley, Kevin Brady, Steny Hoyer, Stephen Barr, The White House

  The House voted yesterday to kill an Internal Revenue Service program that uses private companies to track down delinquent taxpayers and lets the companies keep a percentage of the taxes they collect. The vote, generally on party lines, was 232 to 173.

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• Under Pressure, Carlyle Issues Patient Promise

  Published: October 22, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Under, Pressure, Carlyle, Issues, Patient, Promise, Manor Care Inc, Chuck Grassley, Max Baucus, Service Employees International Union, Iowa, The Carlyle Group Llc, Andy Mcdonald, David Goldstein, Karen H Bechtel, Richard Drezen, Toledo, Centers For Medicare Amp Medicaid S

  The Carlyle Group, under siege for weeks by a labor union critical of its $6.3 billion purchase of Manor Care nursing homes, has taken the rare step of putting in writing its promise to provide adequate staffing and resources to the chain.

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• Senate Panel Moves $288 Billion Farm Bill

  Published: October 26, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Panel, Moves, 288, Billion, Farm, Bill, The Washington Post Company, Bob Stallman, Chesapeake Bay, Mark E Keenum, Max Baucus, Michael R Mcleod, Pat Roberts, Tom Harkin, American Association Of Crop Insurers, American Farm Bureau Federation, German Marshall Fund

  The Senate Agriculture Committee, under pressure to make changes in decades-old subsidy programs, voted yesterday to offer farmers an alternative safety net that lawmakers said will provide better protection against falling incomes and will save as much as $4 billion over the next five years.

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• Senate Panel Moves $288 Billion Farm Bill

  Published: October 26, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Panel, Moves, 288, Billion, Farm, Bill, The Washington Post Company, Bob Stallman, Chesapeake Bay, Mark E Keenum, Max Baucus, Michael R Mcleod, Pat Roberts, Tom Harkin, American Association Of Crop Insurers, American Farm Bureau Federation, German Marshall Fund

  The Senate Agriculture Committee, under pressure to make changes in decades-old subsidy programs, voted yesterday to offer farmers an alternative safety net that lawmakers said will provide better protection against falling incomes and will save as much as $4 billion over the next five years.

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• Senate Panel Moves $288 Billion Farm Bill

  Published: October 26, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Senate, Panel, Moves, 288, Billion, Farm, Bill, The Washington Post Company, Bob Stallman, Chesapeake Bay, Mark E Keenum, Max Baucus, Michael R Mcleod, Pat Roberts, Tom Harkin, American Association Of Crop Insurers, American Farm Bureau Federation, German Marshall Fund

  The Senate Agriculture Committee, under pressure to make changes in decades-old subsidy programs, voted yesterday to offer farmers an alternative safety net that lawmakers said will provide better protection against falling incomes and will save as much as $4 billion over the next five years.

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• Weary, Wary Lawmakers See Compromise as Way Forward

  Published: October 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Weary, Wary, Lawmakers, See, Compromise, Way, Forward, Iraq, U S Republican Party, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Iowa, Michigan, Chuck Grassley, Doc Hastings, Elizabeth Dole, George Voinovich, Hillary Clinton, James Webb, Jane Harman, Jim Manley, John Boehner, Max Baucus, Nancy

  For most of the year, congressional Democrats have been uncompromising on issues including the Iraq war and expanded health insurance for poor children, believing that public opinion favored them and that Republicans would break with President Bush. But the GOP held firm and Congress's approval r...

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• Weary, Wary Lawmakers See Compromise as Way Forward

  Published: October 30, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Weary, Wary, Lawmakers, See, Compromise, Way, Forward, Iraq, U S Republican Party, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Iowa, Michigan, Chuck Grassley, Doc Hastings, Elizabeth Dole, George Voinovich, Hillary Clinton, James Webb, Jane Harman, Jim Manley, John Boehner, Max Baucus, Nancy

  For most of the year, congressional Democrats have been uncompromising on issues including the Iraq war and expanded health insurance for poor children, believing that public opinion favored them and that Republicans would break with President Bush. But the GOP held firm and Congress's approval r...

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• House Sends Free-Trade Pact With Peru to Vote in Senate

  Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: House, Sends, Free Trade, Pact, With, Peru, Vote, Senate, Colombia, United States, Charles Rangel, Nancy Pelosi, Afl Cio, Panama, South Korea, U S Chamber Of Commerce, James Hoffa, John Sweeney, Max Baucus, Nicole Venable, Peter Hakim, Australia, Bahrain, Inter American D

  The House of Representatives approved a free-trade agreement with Peru yesterday, the first such accord passed by Congress since Democrats won control last year.

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• House Sends Free-Trade Pact With Peru to Vote in Senate

  Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: House, Sends, Free Trade, Pact, With, Peru, Vote, Senate, Colombia, United States, Charles Rangel, Nancy Pelosi, Afl Cio, Panama, South Korea, U S Chamber Of Commerce, James Hoffa, John Sweeney, Max Baucus, Nicole Venable, Peter Hakim, Australia, Bahrain, Inter American D

  The House of Representatives approved a free-trade agreement with Peru yesterday, the first such accord passed by Congress since Democrats won control last year.

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• House Passes Bill to Ease Alternative Minimum Tax

  Published: November 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: House, Passes, Bill, Ease, Alternative, Minimum, Tax, Max Baucus, Trailhead Ventures, Baron Hill, Charles Schumer, Denver, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Jim Mccrery, John Larson, N Gregory Mankiw, Nancy Pelosi, Sam R Johnson, The White House, Tim Mahoney, Wall Street, William

  The House yesterday narrowly approved a $73.8 billion measure to protect millions of families from the alternative minimum tax and offer new tax breaks to middle-income homeowners and low-income parents, offset by tax increases that would land primarily on wealthy Wall Street financiers.

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