Is Congress failing on Homeland Security oversight?

By Sarah Laskow

Boston Marathon bombing raises new questions.

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"… and the re-named Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The Finance Committee kept revenue functions of the Customs Service, and the Commerce committee, …"

Senate chairs: Democrats have deep ties to industries they oversee

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

Though the Democrats lost six of their 59 Senate seats in the November election, they still enter the 112th Congress in control of the upper

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"… s CommitteeJeff BingamanEnvironment and Public Works CommitteeBarbara BoxerFinance CommitteeMax BaucusHealth, Education, Labor, and Pensions CommitteeTom HarkinHomelan …"

Democrats desperately seek their own Rove

By Peter H. Stone

For chastened Democrats, ‘a lesson and a beating’; Republicans hone tactics that brought in secretive millions last year...

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"… aphed effort in several big money centers such as Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco to improve the president’s standing.Bundlers suggest that a few of the a …"

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Insurance brokers seek health reform change to safeguard profits

By Josh Israel

Insurance brokers seek change in health reform provision to protect profits

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"… rs both the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the Finance Committee’s health care panel, notes government estimates indicate approximately $ …"

Max Baucus — Senate Finance Committee

By Jeremy Borden

Raised on a Montana ranch, Sen. Max Baucus now wrangles tax policy as head of the powerful Finance Committee. The Big Sky State Democrat, 69

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"… ana ranch, Sen. Max Baucus now wrangles tax policy as head of the powerful Finance Committee. The Big Sky State Democrat, 69, was elected to the U.S. House in 1974, an …"

"… senator and the third among Democrats.The top Democrat on the tax-writing Finance Committee since 2001, Baucus has served three stints as chairman — the current one …"

"… d themselves at the center of Washington’s most contentious debates. The Finance Committee oversees all measures affecting taxation and other revenue measures genera …"

"… ss Job Creation Act, became law in large part due to Baucus’ work in the Finance Committee. In an e-mail, Baucus Communications Director Kate Downen also touted the …"

PhRMA ads offer pat on the back to politicians who supported SCHIP

By Marianne Lavelle

They’re doing it for the kids. The nation’s leading drug makers have underwritten the largest political issue advertising campaign on the ai

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"… utenberg of New Jersey. Both are well ahead in their races, but Baucus, as Finance Committee chairman and Lautenberg, who has sponsored SCHIP legislation in the past, …"

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John Kerry, Dem appointee to Super Congress, has record of working across the aisle

By John Aloysius Farrell and Aaron Mehta

John Kerry, backer of infrastructure projects, gets big donations from transportation

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"… ax issues affecting business, research and capital gains. He serves on the Finance Committee, has chaired small business and commerce panels in the Senate, and has a t …"

The influence peddlers

By Yossi Melman and Julio Godoy

Arcadi Gaydamak epitomized the business of war in the post-Cold War era – an entrepreneur with global ties to resource exploitation

Obama campaign reports more than 350 big bundlers, including Solyndra figures

By Aaron Mehta

41 bundlers round up $500,000 each for Obama's re-election
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INSIDE WASHINGTON: Much ado on Hill about little

By The Associated Press

INSIDE WASHINGTON: Congress makes noise but few laws ahead in summer lead-up to Election Day

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"… em expire for the wealthiest Americans. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the Finance Committee's senior Republican, took the floor immediately to say he would offer an a …"