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The Last Best Place (Free subscription) | yesterday
... between the parties in the last decade. PCL Employees have given $16,600 this cycle to Sen. Max Baucus (D., Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance committee and the author of the bond provision. Baucus, whose staff did not answer inquiries, was enthusiastic enough about the forestry bonds that he put them into the Farm Bill (H.R. 2419), though they have nothing to do with agriculture....
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billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
WASHINGTON - Sen. Max Baucus, who had a crucial role in shaping the Farm Bill, defended its payment system and American agricultural policy in general on Thursday just before Congress passed the legislation. The Montana Democrat sits on the Senate Agr ...
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billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 700,000 acres by non-Indians.A bill introduced last year by Montana's Democratic U.S. senators, Max Baucus and Jon Tester, would loan the tribe money to purchase non-tribal land and put it into a trust. The land could then be put to use for agriculture or other purposes that would generate tribal revenue.But Indian Affairs Director Jerold Gidner told a Senate panel Thursday that his agency...
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TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
As the senior tax policy advisor to Chairman Max Baucus and other Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee from 2000 through 2007, Heck was responsible for developing and promoting tax law changes related to the Internal Revenue Code, including in the areas of corporate and international tax reforms, tax law simplification, Federal excise taxes, and compliance issues. Among the major...
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Black Bear Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... dealings with it. I sought to reform the Endangered Species Act with Senators Harry Reid and Max Baucus and the late John Chaffee when I served in the United States Senate. I had lived with the consequences of ESA decisions as Governor of Idaho. As Secretary I have now experienced the reality that the current ESA is among the most inflexible laws Congress has passed. It prevents me, as Secretary,...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... of 400,000 acres of land in Montana from a single owner, the Plum Creek Timber Co.But Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said it wasn't an earmark because it was a model for conservation efforts across the country and there are no geographic limitations in the legislation.Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., said $170 million in relief for the salmon crisis on the West Coast was "desperately needed by the...
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... of 400,000 acres of land in Montana from a single owner, the Plum Creek Timber Co.But Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said it wasn't an earmark because it was a model for conservation efforts across the country and there are no geographic limitations in the legislation.Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., said $170 million in relief for the salmon crisis on the West Coast was "desperately needed by the...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... in Alaska and Hawaii. Why the Farm Bill mattersThe legislation also includes language by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., that would allow state and local governments to issue bonds to help conservation organizations buy private lands. The provision that would provide incentives for non-profits to buy land from Montana's Plum Creek Timber Co.Though the language appears to be tailored for Montana,...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... comes on the heels of a number of key
senators, including Senators Olympia Snowe of Maine, Max Baucus of Montana
and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, expressly calling for stronger and improved
enforcement of the Softwood Lumber Agreement.
"Senator Baucus and Senator Chambliss showed decisive and effective
leadership in the importer-certification legislation effort," said
Coalition Chairman...
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billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... "That should be the first step."Bushman is one of five Republicans vying to challenge U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., this fall. The other contenders in the June 3 primary election are Bob Kelleher, a Butte attorney; state Rep. Michael Lange of Billings; accountant Patty Lovaas of Missoula; and truck driver-rancher Anton Pearson of St. Regis. A mix of solutionsWhen asked what they'd do about...
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billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Missoula coffee to be sold in military storesMISSOULA - A Missoula coffee vendor has signed a $100,000 contract with the Department of Defense.Liquid Planet will distribute its distinct brands of coffee to military bases around the world, including 150 Army and Air Force exchange stores.Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus helped bring about the agreement.Liquid Planet opened in Missoula six years...
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The Kept-Up Academic Librarian (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Universities may be able to ignore reality most of the time, but even they must answer to the knock of the Internal Revenue Service. Or they will, at least, if Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley and Montana Democrat Max Baucus have...
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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... reactionary Democrats, anti-environmental hacks Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, and Max Baucus. There are also 9 Republicans with consistently better environmental voting records than McCain (Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Judd Gregg, Gordon Smith, Arlen Specter, John Thune, John Sununu, Bob Corker, and Norm Coleman-- all of whom have barely mediocre environmental voting records)....
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Intelligent Discontent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Senator Baucus certainly deserves credit for one thing. Being able to make this remark to a reporter about increasing access to health care without bursting into laughter must have taken a remarkable degree of self-control: “I want the Finance Committee to be ready, to be ahead of the curve,” he said. “That's why I’ve begun hearings, [...]
