Tag archive for ‘Max Baucus’
Posted by The Foundry on June 22nd, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as Daniel Inouye, deficit, Harry Reid, Jon Kyl, Max Baucus, republic, transparency
The Washington Post reports that “lawmakers speed up debt-reduction talks.” The headline of that story should read “Lawmakers speed up secret debt-limit talks; details scarce.” Once again, in classic Washington style, these talks are in secret and behind closed doors. Where is the transparency? The White House and congressional leaders are accelerating negotiations over the biggest debt-reduction package in at least two decades amid mounting concern that the effort is running out of time. Over the next six weeks, negotiators must strike a bipartisan compromise to slice more than $2 trillion … More
Posted by The Foundry on May 6th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as David Vitter, deficit, Max Baucus, mexico, republic, taxes
One year ago today President Obama imposed a moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. It banned shallow-water and deepwater operations, setting the stage for a year of delays in permitting. Now a U.S. senator wants to put a moratorium on federal agencies. Sen. David Vitter (D-La.), an outspoken critic of the administration’s…
Posted by The Foundry on May 5th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as afghanistan, deficit, google, Max Baucus, medicaid, medicare, mexico, michele bachmann, oil spill, taxes
Randall Stilley has witnessed firsthand the Obama administration’s job-killing agenda. As the president and chief executive of Seahawk Drilling, he had to lay off 632 employees before filing for bankruptcy — a direct result of President Barack Obama’s anti-energy policies. Stilley’s company owned and operated 20 shallow-water rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. The lack…
Posted by The Foundry on May 4th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as Max Baucus, mexico, new york, taxes
Senator Max Baucus (D–MT) isn’t shy about picking winners and losers. Last December, he led the charge to keep in place a subsidy of $6 billion per year to the ethanol industry. Now he’s picking the oil and gas industry as losers by proposing to eliminate subsidies for big oil and using the increased revenue…
Posted by The Foundry on April 13th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as california, John Kerry, Max Baucus, president bush
This time about three years ago, a California Democrat exercised legislative power to do something unprecedented in America’s international trade policymaking. Effectively ending more than five decades of bipartisan consensus on trade policy, on April 10, 2008, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her like-minded colleagues unilaterally and irresponsibly amended House rules to circumvent the 90-day…
Posted by The Foundry on April 6th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as cap and trade, climate change, epa, James Inhofe, Max Baucus, Mitch McConnell, national security, supreme court
Realizing the costs and folly of instituting a massive greenhouse gas regulatory regime, Members of Congress stopped cap-and-trade legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions, most notably carbon dioxide (CO2), from becoming law in the last Congress. But their job is not complete. Now unelected bureaucrats at the EPA are attempting to bypass the legislative process…
Posted by The Foundry on March 30th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as climate change, epa, global warming, Harry Reid, James Inhofe, John Barrasso, Max Baucus
The Senate is expected to vote today on several amendments that would affect the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) told reporters that it’s now or never and voting on the amendments will “get rid of that issue one way…
Posted by The Foundry on March 24th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as deficit, epa, Max Baucus, medicaid, medicare, republic
Last week, Kathy Greenlee, the Assistant Secretary for the Administration on Aging, was placed in the uncomfortable position of defending the unworkable CLASS Program in front of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. Her task was made all the more difficult from recent remarks made by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius…
Posted by The Foundry on February 17th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as deficit, epa, healthcare, maine, Max Baucus, medicaid, medicare, Olympia Snowe, Tom Coburn
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified in front of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday about the President’s 2012 fiscal year budget and the status of health care reform. Despite the projected $1.6 trillion deficit in the President’s budget, Sebelius claimed that it represents “the blueprint for putting (President Obama’s) vision into action…
Posted by The Foundry on December 14th, 2010 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as constitution, florida, Max Baucus, medicare, supreme court
“The unchecked expansion of congressional power to the limits suggested by the Minimum Essential Coverage Provision would invite unbridled exercise of federal police powers. At its core, this dispute is not simply about regulating the business of insurance—or crafting a scheme of universal health insurance coverage—it’s about an individual’s right to choose to participate.” So…