Baucus: Removing Health Care Deadline Should Help Process

• By David M. Drucker
• Roll Call Staff
• July 23, 2009, 8:03 p.m.

Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Thursday evening that Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) decision to not push for a full Senate vote on health care reform before the August recess makes it somewhat easier for the gang of six bipartisan negotiators on his committee to reach a deal.