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...Senate Finance Committee voted 12-8 to approve a welfare reform bill that would endAid to Families with Dependent Children-- the federal government's 60-year guarantee to support mothers and children -- andturn it over to the states. Only one Democrat, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, sided with Republicans...
Some such assessment may have prompted Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, to write a surprising letter to Crown Butte's management. Calling himself a friend of mining, he nevertheless said he was unwilling to gamble a national treasure -- Yellowstone -- against short-term economic gain. Damage from a failed tailings pond, warned Baucus, could be "cataclysmic" and "irreversible." He didn't say what should be done with the tailings -- truck convoys to NIMBY ("not in my backyard") land are a possibility -- but if an on-the-mountain tailings pond is necessary, mine plans "should be abandoned...
...Baucus' letter, though it may stiffen the spines of the regulating agencies, probably won't be enough to stop the mine. Noranda and Crown Butte may well get a permit to operate. A draft environmental-impact statement is expected by summer, shepherded by the Forest Service and the Montana State Lands Department, two agencies generally considered to be pro-development. The fact is that the outdated 1872 mining law, which treats the U.S. as if it were an underdeveloped country to be exploited, does not allow the agencies to say no to a permit. They can say only "yes, provided...
Much of the new support for the assault-gun ban came from Senators representing Midwestern and Western states that are strongholds of the once invulnerable National Rifle Association. Colorado Democrat Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Montana Democrat Max Baucus, longtime NRA supporters, both voted...
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