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      <excerpt>...satisfied Ms. Brainard has taken the steps necessary to fix the discrepancies in documents submitted to the committee,&quot; said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Finance Committee. &quot;We intend to move forward as soon as possible on this nomination, </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...accountability with the program. President Barack Obama recently signed legislation that included a provision pushed by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., that requires a face-to-face screening for every servicemember who returns from war. It's modeled after a p</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...rates for Medicare that weren't incorporated in the original analysis. In mid-September, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus introduced his committee's version of health care reform, which he said would cost $856 billion over the next decade. (</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...$500 next year and, the cost of her brand name drugs would drop in half. 											  In June, the White House and Democrat Sen. Max Baucus cut a deal with drug makers so that seniors in the gap will get their brand name prescriptions at half price. The</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...satisfied Ms. Brainard has taken the steps necessary to fix the discrepancies in documents submitted to the committee,&quot; said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Finance Committee. &quot;We intend to move forward as soon as possible on this nomination, </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>It came out of a late-July meeting on health care that included Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the Finance Committee chairman, and Peter Orszag, Obama&amp;#39;s budget director, although neither man&amp;#39;s staff acknowledges having hatched the scheme. ...</excerpt>
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