And one other piece of news from the Senate, Democrat Max Baucus is retiring. The powerful chair of the Senate Finance Committee has represented Montana since 1978. Baucus is the sixth Senate Democrat ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The U.S. Senate has worked out a compromise that puts legs under the Bush administration's ...

A health-care proposal announced by Sen. Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, would require nonprofit hospitals “to conduct a community health needs assessment at ...

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., recently announced the creation of the Sean-Michael Miles Memorial Conservation Fellowship to honor the memory of the University student who died in a car accident in ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. With Congress primed for a health care debate when it reconvenes next week, Montana Sen. Max ...

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has emerged as the somewhat surprising champion of a health care overhaul in Congress. But some... Baucus At The Center Of Health Care Debate When Barack ...

Montana Lt. Gov. John Walsh, a Democrat, was appointed Friday to fill the unexpired term of longtime Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, who is leaving the Senate to serve as U.S. ambassador to China. Walsh, ...

As of today, probably the biggest hurdle standing in the way of health care reform is the Senate Finance Committee, or more specifically, the group of six centrist and center-right senators on the ...

HELENA — U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, who worked doggedly on the new Medicare prescription drug benefit that passed Congress last week, spent his lunch hour Friday defending the bill in front of a hostile ...