That’s the question being asked around the country today in response to the $85 billion proposal presented Thursday by Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the leaders of the Finance Committee. Although immediately rejected by Democratic leadership, the draft bill provides a sense of what conservatives More…
There is unemployment, and then there is long-term unemployment. As Congress grapples this month with ways to tackle the nation’s jobless crisis, many economists are hoping lawmakers recognize the distinction.
Not only is there often a stigma associated with being out of work for long stretches, but the long-term unemployed More…
The latest draft — but perhaps not the final version — of a Senate jobs bill was released this morning by Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the leaders of the Finance Committee, who are hoping to tackle the nation’s 9.7 percent unemployment rate.
Wish them luck.
Late last week, it seemed as if the tide of Democratic support was shifting away from Ben Bernanke’s bid to serve a second term atop the Federal Reserve. Just a few days later, he’s not looking so bad.
Over the weekend, Bernanke won the endorsement of Sens. Chris More…
Here’s the statement from Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), chairman of the Banking Committee, supporting the Obama administration’s proposal to apply a tax on the nation’s financial giants in order to repay taxpayers for the 2008 bailout.
Wall Street owes a great debt to the American public and we
A prominent children’s healthcare advocate in Montana is putting pressure on Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Finance Committee, to fight for a provision of the Senate’s health reform bill that would preserve the Children’s Health Insurance Program. House Democrats are pushing to terminate CHIP in 2014, More…
Last year’s expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program was the legislative high point of the last decade, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Finance Committee, told Montana’s Great Falls Tribune.
Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the expansion of the Children’s
Among the chief discrepancies between the House and Senate health reform proposals is a provision of the House bill that would allow states to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices on behalf of their lowest income seniors — those eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. House leaders, More…
I see that my post knocking reporters for covering the “Max Baucus was drunk” video got linked by Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds, who 1) misunderstood my point and 2) made a silly assertion about Joe Biden that was promptly debunked. Did Reynolds make those mistakes under the influence of More…
So, which respectable media outlets actually ran with the completely baseless, Drudge-driven “Max Baucus was drunk” smear? I count the Los Angeles Times (whose blogger Andrew Malcolm is basically a funnel for Drudge), The Charleston Daily Mail, The Palm Beach Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, More…
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