Senator Max Baucus

Photo Taken By Shande WiestSenator Max Baucus stopped by the studio on Friday and was able to give me a quick interview. We discussed his role with Congress' Committee on Deficit Reduction, otherwise known as the "super committee". We also touched on the President's speech last Thursday night and talked about 9-11...

Senator Max Baucus kicked off the first meeting of the joint select committee on deficit reduction yesterday,  urging members to consider every option through the lens of job creation.   Senator Baucus has also asked Montanans to share their ideas for reducing the debt....

Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus says he wants to take innovative ideas from citizens to the budget "supercommittee" charged with cutting spending. Baucus, who will be sitting on the panel when Congress convenes next week, says Montanans can send their ideas to him on his Web site or by mail to his office...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he's naming U.S. Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state to co-chair a powerful "super committee" charged with finding more than $1 trillion in deficit cuts this fall. Murray will be joined by fellow Democrats John Kerry of Massachusetts and Max Baucus of Montana on the panel, which was established last week by hard-fought legislation to increase the

The Montana congressional delegation remains at odds over how to deal with the federal spending deficit in wake of a rating agency's decision to downgrade the credit rating of long-term U.S. debt.

Montana’s U.S. Senator Max Baucus says a new report released Friday by the Office of the Inspector General for the Environmental Protection Agency shows the need for improved communication between the EPA and the community regarding asbestos exposure.

David Bears may be the most influential political commentator in the U.S. right now, as the London based managing director of sovereign credit ratings, at Standard and Poor’s. He will help determine whether the U.S. government's credit rating will be downgraded, as a result of the battle over raising the debt limit.

Montana’s senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus announced today that  Montana small businesses will now have access to more than $100 million in new lending through the

Max Baucus called on ExxonMobil today to pledge the company will not lay off any workers due to the Silvertip Pipeline rupture that caused oil to leak into Montana’s Yellowstone River.

Senator Max Baucus wants Montanans hurt by the ExxonMobil oil spill on the Yellowstone River to be repaid.  In a letter to the Exxon Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, Baucus pressed the oil company for answers to the cleanup and the cause of the pipeline burst.