‘Medicare Czar’ Berwick Dodges ‘Redistribution of Wealth’ Question After ‘Pathetic’ Hearing

Merdith Jessup The Blaze 11/18/2010

Having been installed by President Barack Obama in a recess appointment, the new director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made his first appearance before the Senate Finance Committee this week.

Dr. Donald Berwick sat before the committee Wednesday, but left before Senators had time to fully […]

Here’s a novel idea: read the bills first!

Baucus: Repeal 1099 Filing Rule from ObamaCare

Newsmax 12 Nov 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top Democrat in the U.S. Senate on Friday pledged to repeal a provision of the new healthcare law that requires businesses to file tax forms on transactions of more than $600.

Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of that chamber’s tax-writing committee, […]

Loads of campaign cash make Big Green a Democratic powerhouse

Mark Tapscott Washington Examiner 9/27/2010

Officials of a dozen top Big Green environmental groups contributed more than $14.5 million to congressional and presidential candidates in 2008 and through the second quarter of 2010 with 96 percent of the total going to Democrats, according to an Examiner analysis of federal campaign data.

The data was […]

Sen. Max Baucus: A bank tax is coming

David Rogers Politico.com 4/26/2010

It was a short hallway conversation but spoke volumes about the dilemma facing Democrats, hungry for new revenues after emptying the cupboard on health care reform.

“I don’t think there’s much doubt that there will be a bank tax,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus told POLITICO. And more than ever, […]

Obama Administration to use health care law to increase tax enforcement

Jonathan Strong The Daily Caller 4/26/2010

Most people understand that the IRS is likely to need thousands of new agents to enforce the Obama Administration’s new health insurance mandate – starting in 2014, you can either buy health insurance or the government will confiscate your tax refund, at least.

But hidden deep within the 2,000 […]

Senator Max Baucus impaired on the Senate Floor?

Most bloggers were speculating yesterday [12/24/2009] that the Senator was intoxicated. Or that he was fatigued from the late night/early morning marathon sessions to pass the Health Care bill to meet the President’s Christmas Eve deadline…

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