Baucus doesn't make a stand in the Senate often, but when he does he dives into a gargantuan issue. He's stepping hard into the health care reform debate, and he has received high praise from the Boston Globe. Check that piece out here.
The Senator has long been one of the most powerful people in America. He has been either the ranking Democrat on or the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee for decades, and his close association with the committee's ranking Republican, Charles Grassley enhances that power.
Previously Baucus has pushed hard for President Bush's tax cuts and against Bush's plans to reform Social Security. The Boston Globe piece argues that Montana's senior senator isn't passing the buck on health care.
Comments at the Boston site argue that Baucus won't even allow a single-payer approach to reform to be discussed before the committee.
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