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Sen. Max Baucus [D-MT]
U.S. Senator, Montana

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State:	Montana [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Dec 11, 1941 / 67 years old

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On the Floor

Watch Senate proceeding 11-10-09 00 1:08:55 to 1:16:45 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Max Baucus:

When	Role	Representing
1978-2014	U.S. Senator	Montana	(Most Recent Term Began in 2009) (was preceeded by Michael Mansfield)
1975-1978	U.S. Representative	Montana’s 1^st	(was preceeded by Richard Shoup)

Sponsorship Analysis

Baucus is a moderate Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Baucus is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Baucus’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Baucus, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Baucus and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Baucus.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Baucus's bills without Baucus returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Max Baucus missed 126 (2%) of 7073 votes since Jan 25, 1989. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Baucus in 2007-2008 was $72,200 from employees of Schering-Plough Corp. Max Baucus’s net worth was between $-67,982 and $264,999 in 2007, according to Baucus’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Baucus.

Committee Membership

Max Baucus sits on the following committees:

Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance

Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure

Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Health Care

Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness

Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions and Family Policy

Member, Subcommittee on Taxation, IRS Oversight, and Long-term Growth

Member, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Member, Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing, Inspection, and Plant and Animal Health

Member, Subcommittee on Hunger, Nutrition, and Family Farms

Member, Subcommittee on Production, Income Protection and Price Support

Member, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

Member, Joint Committee on Taxation

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Max Baucus has sponsored 351 bills since Jan 14, 1991 of which 304 haven't made it out of committee and 6 were successfully enacted. Baucus has co-sponsored 1137 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Baucus and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Baucus’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	S. 1934: Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2009
	S. 1928: A bill to extend and modify the temporary suspension of duty on golf bag bodies made of woven fabrics of nylon or polyester sewn together with pockets, and dividers or graphite protectors, accompanied with rainhoods.
	S. 1823: A bill to renew the temporary suspension of duty on certain footwear.
	S. 1824: A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on lug bottom boots for use in fishing waders.
	S. 1826: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain glass snow globes.

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