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Report: Senator Max Baucus Received More Campaign Money from Health and Insurance Industry Interests than Any Other Member of Congress

Montana Senator Max Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, is the Senate's point man on healthcare reform. A new article in the Montana Standard finds that Senator Baucus has received more campaign money from health and insurance industry interests than any other member of Congress. The article says, "In the past six years, nearly one-fourth of every dime raised by Baucus and his political-action committee has come from groups and individuals associated with drug companies, insurers, hospitals, medical-supply firms, health-service companies and other health professionals." Ref. Source 1

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Max Baucus gave girlfriend $14K raise:

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008, at the time he was becoming romantically involved with her, and later that year took her on a taxpayer-funded trip to Southeast Asia and the Middle East, though foreign policy was not her specialty. Ref. Source 8

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Baucus Retires

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., reportedly will retire next year and not seek re-election. Baucus' decision will set off a scramble by both parties for the seat, located in a state President Obama lost in 2012. Ref. USAToday