Baucus Maxxes out
WaPo
"To avoid any appearance of favoritism, his aides say, Baucus quietly began refusing contributions from health-care political action committees after June 1. But the policy does not apply to lobbyists or corporate executives, who continued to make donations, disclosure records show."
— Dan Eggen Washington Post
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Obama responds to Republican South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint's call to break Obama... while the healthcare industry breaks America.
"Federal Election Commission documents filed last week show that individual lobbyists and others with health-care connections continued to make contributions to Baucus committees throughout June. Examples from Baucus's Glacier PAC include $5,000 from the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America and $2,500 from lobbyists with U.S. Strategies, which represents numerous health-care firms. Overall, half of the $110,000 in donations to the PAC from April to June came from health-care firms and lobbyists, including Schering-Plough, Medtronic and New York Life."
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It will be a miracle if this bill passes in any form that actually helps a third or more of the uninsured.
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