Sep 2 2009
Kaiser Health News reports on the partnership between Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Ranking Member Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and how health reform has affected that dynamic. "For nearly a decade, the cross-aisle team ... has shaped dozens of tax cuts, trade measures and health bills on the Senate Finance Committee. That led many to predict that the partnership would be strong enough to broker bipartisan health care legislation this year. But as Congress returns to work next week, the partnership has frayed around the edges, thanks in part to a stream of caustic and pessimistic remarks from Grassley as he toured Iowa during the congressional recess" (Pianin, 9/2).
Related Content: Sen. Charles Grassley Discusses Alliance with Sen. Max Baucus. Listen to the interview or read the transcript here.
 This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
|