• Posts Tagged ‘Max Baucus’

    Senate Finance Committee’s Soft Filibuster

    by  • August 22, 2009 • politics & money

    Ezra Klein recounts Finance Committee members Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Max Baucus (D-MO) tale of how they “Came up” with the co-op plan as a political solution. In early June, Max Baucus asked Kent Conrad to solve this argument. Conrad came up with the co-op proposal. And I literally mean “came up” with it. [...]

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    At least one Finance Committee Dem is about real Health Care Reform

    by  • August 3, 2009 • politics & money

    Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who has been shut out of the 6 person, non representative health care negotiations on the Senate Finance Committee, doesn’t seem to be happy about the exclusion or the proposals being mulled over by the Baucus/Conrad/Grassley led group: Rockefeller has sparred privately with Conrad and Baucus during their Democrat-only Finance Committee [...]

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