Max Baucus
Max Baucus
Max Sieben Baucusis an American politician who was a United States Senator from Montana from 1978 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, Baucus was the longest-serving U.S. senator from Montana. Baucus has been the United States Ambassador to China since 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 December 1941
CityHelena, MT
CountryUnited States of America
burn midnight oil people president
If the president would like to have his people in place, I would think he would burn the midnight oil to find a solution,
congress people
These people need help. They need to know Congress is doing something, too.
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If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.
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This package that we're announcing today is an effort to get things moving, ... It's based on several needs. One is cash -- people just need cash to be able to meet needs.
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I couldn't be prouder of Harold Sutton, folks in Billings and people across Montana for the way they've risen to the challenge of helping with the Katrina relief effort,
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If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.
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We've cleared the next to the last hurdle. I would be very surprised if the Congress didn't sign off on the this plan, but we must continue to ride herd to make sure that it does.
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U.S. - China Economic Relations Revisited. China maintains an unjustified, WTO-inconsistent ban on U.S. beef, despite clear scientific evidence that our beef is safe.
including montana trade
U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.
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a true definition of compromise -- a little give, a little take.
passed point
We've been at this point before and it's passed us. This time, it's going to be different.
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We've got a choice here. It's either vote for this or try to amend it. And if we try to amend it, we're going to be back where we've been for the last five months. That is, doing a lot of talking and not much action. I regret that, but that's the situation we're faced with.
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We all know the importance of getting prescription drug benefits for seniors, ... It's extremely complicated working this out. It's not easy. It's uncharted territory, but we all want to make it work. For that reason, it is going to work.
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I am concerned about the fate of the bill. Although many of its policies are sound, I am not confident that most will survive a conference with the House.