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Senators Max S. Baucus and Charles E. Grassley, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, sent letters to the 136 wealthiest colleges in the nation last week asking for detailed information about their finances and operations...
...wildlife as well as to visitors in the congested parks. But now, 47 Senators have signed on to a letter to the Interior Department requesting an end to the ban on firearms. Initiated by Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, the letters other signatories include Montana's two Democratic Senators - Max Baucus, who is up for re-election, and Jon Tester - as well as the entire delegations of Wyoming and Idaho...
...Senator Baucus's spokesman Barrett Kaiser said there's "no reason that law-abiding citizens shouldn't be allowed to carry a firearm on our public lands.... Max thinks it's a matter of Second Amendment rights, and it's also the right thing to do for people who simply want to cross through our parks to access prime hunting areas," he said...
...investment firms and their employees have given more than $50 million to political candidates so far this cycle, 61% to Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and their well-heeled lobbyists have been busy of late firming up opposition to the measure. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has said he doesn't believe the House bill could pass the Senate - and any measure has to go through his committee. Instead Baucus is looking at other ways to pay for the package, though he has yet to elaborate on what they might entail. The Senate is expected...
...Senate Banking Committee has its own China bill, which would also make it harder for the Treasury to avoid labeling China as a currency manipulator. While the two committees have wrangled over jurisdiction in the case, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has accepted amendments from Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the Michigan Democrat, who co-authored the Banking Committee's bill, and says he does not see the turf battle as "a big issue at all. We are both striving for the same goal...