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...Representative Mark Foley, with pleas for up to $1 trillion in goodies--lower corporate tax rates, larger write-offs for computers, more tax credits. Kick in other tax subsidies that important constituencies like farmers want extended, and the tab runs up to nearly $4 trillion. "Time out!" pleads Max Baucus, senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. "Let's slow down here...
...representative Mark Foley, with pleas for up to $1 trillion in goodies - lower corporate tax rates, larger write-offs for computers, more tax credits. Kick in other tax subsidies that important constituencies like farmers want extended, and the tab runs up to nearly $4 trillion. "Time out!" pleads Max Baucus, senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. "Let's slow down here...
Having picked green-leaning Al Gore as his running mate, Clinton won the 1992 election with support from environmentalists. But when he tried in 1993 to raise royalties for grazing and mining on public lands, he was faced down by Senators from Western states led by Democrat Max Baucus of Montana. After that rebuff, green issues disappeared from his calendar. It wasn't until 1995, when he began vetoing antienvironmental measures pushed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, that he saw that the public would support a green President. "That was when he realized the people wanted wild land," says Pope...
Last week my blood just didn't race in that Paula Jones way when Roll Call ran the story that Montana Senator Max Baucus, 57 and married, had fired his chief of staff, Christine Niedermeier, 47 and not married, under contested circumstances. He said it was because of staff complaints that she was a lousy manager who was causing staff defections. She said (and only reluctantly when she realized there was going to be a story critical of her) that it was because she had asked him to stop making sexual advances. He then said she was making that...
...That's too long to wait, warns Fritz Daily, a former Montana legislator who is concerned about an earthquake fault less than a mile from the pit. "If the water ever discharges, it could destroy the entire valley," he says. A growing number of others, Montana Senator Max Baucus among them, seem to agree...