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
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Our bill will fully fund the rural schools program without selling even one acre of our prized public lands. Our public lands shouldn't be put up for sale to the highest bidder.
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What Hurricane Katrina destroyed in hours will take years to rebuild, ... The public expects the government to be careful with taxpayer dollars and put them to use in a smart and practical manner.
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I know that the American public is nervous about China, and there is a temptation to respond harshly to the economic challenge that China poses. But we need to resist that urge and make responsible policy.
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I told Dirk that I'm going to fight him every step of the way if the administration doesn't back away from this land grab. He heard my message loud and clear: our public lands aren't for sale to the highest bidder.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am supportive of working on repealing the estate tax, but now is not the appropriate time. The nation is calling out for the Senate to act to help those in need.
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President Bush likes to say that trade is for everyone, and that we all share the benefits -- including workers .... This amendment presented the president with the perfect opportunity to show a real commitment to those priorities. But he let the opportunity pass him by.