he and max baucus are very good friends. and he first brought up the idea then, just to prove your point. jim messina who of course was in the white house for president obama, he ran his campaign, he happened to be baucus' former chief of staff, he pushed the idea. >> a crafty devil. >> i will tell you, in the halls of the senate today, mary landrieu was openly talking about the prospect of becoming energy chair and what it means for her home state of louisiana, again running for re-election and ron wyden, i was joking about it with him an hour ago, the idea he could potentially take over the finance committee. it really is not -- you're not too cynical. in this case, this really is a possibility. >> just when you think you're too cynical, no. >> we'll prove that it's a fact. >> thank you so much. >>> up next on "the lead," it's got a dance number, heartwarming plot twists and several characters with grinch-like teeth, which has some on the internet asking how in the world could "love actually" not be considered a holiday cl

and max baucus. your choice.o talk about china instead of "duck dynasty," talk about, i mean befuddlement on both sides that max baucus who we all know and respect as a capable legislator is going to probably the most important country on the planet as our ambassador and only been there five, six times. >> i've also been befuddled. china is the most potential adversary we face. look what they are doing in the south china sea, the east china sea, declaring new zones. going up against japan. japan and south korea are nervous. these are our most important allies. we have to have enough leverage with china. >> and north korea. dennis rodman is there. >> okay. >> so, chuck, let's just talk about the politics of it all. is this too crude of an interpretation i heard this from senators on both sides of the aisle yesterday behind closed doors. you send max baucus to china. he resigns his seat. a democrat is a-pound. you have a democrat running as an incumbent in 2014 and more importantly you have mary landrieu in louisia

what max baucus is worried about is the fact that they own this. this is all theirs. they didn't reach out in a bipartisan way. george bush when he was passing the bush tax cuts, got a lot of democrat quick support. bill clinton reached out to the republicans to pass nafta. obama didn't reach out and now he owns it.

>> well, i talked to max baucus about this yesterday. one, before he leaves, we're going to get some stuff done, i hope. >> on trade? >> there's certain -- on trade, including moving trade promotion authority forward. the president wants it -- i'm glad he wants it, al. this is the first administration since fdr that didn't want it until march of this year. >> and you think you can get that done before max baucus leaves? >> i'm hopeful that we can. you know, sometimes these confirmation -- confirmations take a little while. and hopefully, we can get that done. >> how about trans-pacific? >> the tpp, which is the trans- pacific partnership -- a lot of alphabet soup here, i think has to follow tpa. i don't think that the united states can negotiate the final agreement without letting countries know that we have a fast-track way to get this done for a yes-or-no vote on the floor of the house and senate, so i think you have to start with tpa. that's certainly been the experience over the years, so let's get that done first. then, i think it'l

baucus time on the two holding his skinny. may our lives in indiana for whatever that is pushing for military hardware to stand and walk on the basic add a bit ahead of the dawn of the air force's next step. opposite the go at it just made the conscious will read this a bowl. this is me mission in new guinea is to persuade india to supply a nice time in which the equipment. he wants guns helicopters and manatee a cost as well as training for a fine on the bus in them india has so far hesitated to give witness to christ on getting the may find daily into the hands of china by militants. indian security but also by the bid it could be too generic and stability but not this time predicting that he strongly about an increase in the sky and get defence cooperation. new delhi has invested two billion us dollars in aid and reconstruction of august on and change scores of god offices which has so far not need any honest times. with that poor kid. it tended to impotence. on top. is that they need to separate discussions with the cubs w

. >> this is democratic senator max baucus of montana, holding his seat since 1978.unced he is finished with the senate and won't run for re-election. he has long been a more conservative thorn in the liberal sign of the democratic caucus, but he is a democrat, nonetheless, having control in that chamber, his retirement has been considered a huge opportunity for republicans to pick up a seat on the way towards gaining congress's upper chamber, republicans need six seats if they take back the senate next year. they also have a democratic senator whose seat is up in 2014. to illustrate why baucus' retirement was such a boost, just look at last month, the leading republican candidate was two seats ahead of his rival. the current lieutenant governor and current governor by 15 and seven points. by 15 and 17 points. now. this is still max baucus. he is president obama's choice to be ambassador to china. a hugely consequential position. recall, former utah governor and republican presidential hopeful john huntsman was president obama's pick at the beginning of the first ter

>> he is nominating max baucus. we know that.is a big deal in china given max baucus' ideas about china. on as a collateral impact whole host of issues. max baucus has been the point person in the senate try to push through an overhaul of the tax code. he announced he was not running for reelection in 2014. it was always going to be a heavy left. now his nomination all but kills that effort. some democrats are thrilled with this. they were a little nervous that max baucus was too eager to cut a deal with republicans. replaces max baucus as chairman of the finance committee? wyden, he is ron chairman of the energy committee. he is eager to overhaul the tax code, but does not have the back ground to move quickly as max baucus. meanwhile, the all powerful interests are setting their sights on ron wyden and his staff. to financen's moved will trigger another really big change. >> another ripple effect. ron wyden will have to give up his chairmanship of the energy committee to move to the finance post. will bens mary landrieu next in

baucus' seat max in montana?> montana was considered one of the best republican chances for a pickup in 2014, but now the democratic governor gets to name a temporary replacement. the person likely at the top of the list is attended governor john walsh. he has already announced that he will place baucas, and now he has the chance to get into that seed earlier, giving him an advantage over any republican challenger, raises his profile. much harder to replace a sitting senator. generally, as i hear from republicans, a master stroke by the white house, improving their chances to win two senate races and holding on to control of the senate. >> thank you. let's get to this not so great christmas story. ups angering thousands of customers after missing thousands of christmas day deliveries. give us the scale of what happened and how it happened. hewe spoke to an analyst and said everyone is upset with amazon or ups, but he says, blame yourselves, parents. even though amazon guaranteed delivery by christmas. maybe there

max baucus nominated to be ambassador to china. the senate pretty much finished work on the nominations for 2013, approving the nomination of john antrim cost him to be the next commissioner of the irs and advancing the nomination of janet yellen to be chairman of the federal reserve an. >> as a moderate in the privacy world, i havevacy come to a troubling conclusion. the data broker industry as it does not have constraints and does not have shame. information any about any person regardless of sensitivity for 7.9 cents per name. price of the list of rape sufferers. violence, domestic

, udall of new mexico, rockefeller, carper, stabenow, manchin, king, hirono, heinrich, nelson and baucus. mr. reid: i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 334 with an amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 3304, with the following amendment numbered 2553. mr. reid: i ask for the yeas and nays on my motion. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have an amendment that i have asked the chair to order reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes an amendment numbered 2553 to the instructions of amendment numbered 2552. mr. reid: i now move to refer the house message with respect to h.r. 3304 with instructions. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motions. the clerk: the senator from

>> we got word yesterday from max baucus, the senate -- the chairman of the senate finance committee. the president is going to nominate him to be the next ambassador to china. you are on the finance committee. your reaction to that and what does it mean for finance reform in the next -- tax reform in the next year? >> i told them i'm putting a hold on his nomination. we have too much to do. health care, and reversing rates on medicare, and not to mention taxes. we are full and the president nominates him to be the ambassador to china, which is a great job and he will do a terrific job at it, but it does not help. get anything to done on a good day in washington. but to have -- he has worked so hard to have common ground with orrin hatch.

the fact that baucus doesn't have that background is curious. i think the choices they have made in china going back to jon huntsman as well, gary more well received. he's thinking about politics 2014, mary landrieu on the energy committee. >> finance chair. meanwhile the governor in montana. >> you made every case of merits. >> governor in montana is running as an underdog. now the democratic lieutenant governor in montana can be appointed to the senate, get a leg up, get experience. >> is it better to be an incumbent in 2014? >> that's a very good question. >> all the arguments make sense in terms of rubik's cube. as for him, he hasn't been a loyalist to obama. he didn't do a great job finance chair getting together a bipartisan -- at least semblance of bipartisan approach to health care, which is his big goal in life. didn't do it. we lost enzi, orrin hatch. remember that? there was a hope there. >> talking about in 2009 when the finance committee was -- >> a real grown-up approach to health care instead of partisan one. >> we will hear from

what has baucus' role been? chairman baucus has been the cheerleader when it comes to tax reform. he has worked with chairman dave camp of the house ways and means committee. they have been able to reach across the aisle. establishing basic parameters for tax reform. they have traveled all over the country and become good friends. intowe are entering unknown territory. as chairman camp going to have a great relationship with the new iran's chairman -- with the new finance chairman? host: mr. toder? guest: they have done terrific work and the most serious discussion of tax reform we have had in many years. it is a big list, no matter what the personnel is. when you talk about getting the moredown to 25% or 30%, like 25, which the house wants. and not losing any revenue, you end up having to pay for it by reducing tax preferences. there are things that could be reduced. nobody has named any really big ones that they are planning to reduce. the politics get hard. host: even if senator baucus were to stick around and were not appointed to this job in china, it would be tough. brandon,

res. 59, the bipartisan budget act, signed by 18 senators as follows -- reid of nevada, murray, baucus, begich, boxer, blumenthal, udall of new mexico, stabenow, whitehouse, mccaskill, hirn, coons -- hirono, coons, tester, schock, gillibrand. mr. reid: i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.j. res. 59 with an amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.j. res. 59, with amendment number 2547. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask for the yeas and nays on my motion. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have an amendment which is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes amendment numbered 2548 to the instructions of amendment 2547. mr. reid: i move to refer the house message with respect to h.j. res. 59 with instructions. the presiding officer: the clerk will report.

baucus has spent many years in the senate. he was set to retire at the end of the year.uld give him a chance to keep the seat. also mr. baucus has been critical at times of the obama administration and specifically obamacare so this gets a vocal critic far away. >> it is far away but an important job out there, especially now. >>> secretary of state john kerry has now expressed his regret to a senior official from india over the rest of khobragade. she was taken into custody last week, charged with visa fraud and paying her housekeeper a fraction of the american minimum wage. her lawyer told piers morgan police went too far. >> she was handcuffed and put in a cell with other people and treated like an ordinary u.s. citizen charged with the crime. the fact she is not an ordinary u.s. citizen but a diplomat with immune the and she should never have been treated this way. >> thus far, all indications are standard procedure was followed. with you recognize this is a sensitive issue in india we are continuing to review exactly what happened in this case. >> the u.s. attorney

what is interesting is that baucus was already retiring. why is everybody so worked up about it?ng in part because the timing here will create a ripple effect both in policy and politics. critical player in the u.s. senate and it comes to things like tax reform. he was leading the effort there. his departure pretty much puts a nail in the coffin for tax reform next year. it was going to be a heavy lift, so the bigger question becomes who replaces baucas and picks up the mantle of tax reform in the senate. the answer will be oregon senator ron wyden, chair of the energy committee right now. he will take over the more important and powerful finance committee job. all of those companies and interests who are lobbying max baucus the last two years will now aim to target at ron wyden. it is a big promotion of sorts for ron wyden, seismic shift in the u.s. senate. seat?t about his montana what happens there? all, something happening in the senate first, wyden moving from energy to finance, opening up the energy committee, and mary landrieu, she will take over -- basically musical chair

president obama intends to nominate senator max baucus as ambassador to china.atement president obama said, quote, for more than two decades, max baucus has worked to deepen the relationship between the united states and china. the economic agreements he helped forge have created millions of american jobs and added billions of dollars to our economy and he's perfectly suited to build on that progress in his new role, end quote. so again, senator max baucus, the democrat, expected to be nominated by the president. will he be mentioned with the president at 2:00? we'll watch all that as he comes to the microphones at that hour. >>> there is a one in seven chance thaub the victim of target's debit and credit card security breach. as many as 40 million credit card accounts were hacked between thanksgiving and december 15th. already some customers are noticing suspicious activity. >> there are about five fraudulent charges. over $60, $80, $90 each. >> i noticed, whoa, my bank account is pretty low and saw a $1273 charge to the microsoft store. >> so the cyber thieves

they say he plans to nominate democratic senator max baucus. baucus has drawn on his knowledge as trade of chairman as one of the most powerful committees, the finance committee. he nooets needs confirmation from lawmakers. if he gets it, he'll replace gary lock. locke said last month he planned to step down and return to the u.s. to be with his family. >>> delegates to the united nations general assembly are expressing strong concern about the situation in north korea. they adopted a resolution calling for the country to improve its human rights conditions. japan and the european union submitted the resolution. in it, they say north korean authorities are unjustly detaining and torturing people. the document says defectors have been forcibly returned to the country and abused. it adds that cases involving the abduction of foreigners remain unresolved. assembly members say those in pyongyang are carrying out political executions without fair trials. they say it's a fabrication concocted by hostile forces. >>> former u.s. basketball star dennis

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baucus, a democrat, chairs the powerful senate finance committee which oversees taxes and trade. he's been a vocal critic of china's trade policies. >> and a u.s. attorney is defending the treatment of an indian diplomat who was arrested and strip searched. devyani khobragade was arrested in new york last tuesday. she was charged with paying her nanny less than minimum wage and visa fraud to get the nanny into the u.s. she was strip searched, something the u.s. attorney says is standard procedure. her arrest and search has sparked outrage in india which retaliated by removing the safety concrete barriers in front of the u.s. embassy there. the u.s. attorney says khobragade was treated better than other defendants. >>> coming up on the "morning news," crime fighting of the future. we will go on patrol with a robot designed to spot trouble before it happens. this is the "cbs morning news." >>ounc >> announcer: this portion of "cbs morning news" sponsored by airborne, awesome immune system support, now with a new formula in gummies. support, now with a new formula in gummies. suppor

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sending baucus to china could help them but the real problem is the president and obama care. neither will be on the ballot but very much on voter's minds next year. >> thank you, carl. >>> up next, are we looking at a duck walk for cable top tv show. >>> and what our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 13 in tampa with quick-thinking police pulling a pilot from the wreckage of a small plain crash. he remains hospitalized with serious injuries tonight. fox 9 in the twin cities with a woman who has baked cookies for school kids for 15 years and now being told to stop because of an anonymous complaint. >>> and this is a live look from honolulu, the big story there, preparation for president obama's holiday vacation. officials are trying to work around expected traffic issues. that is tonight's live look outside of the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. [ woman 3 ] to come together even when we're apart. [ male announcer ] in stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and more, swanson makes holiday dishes delicious. gravy and more, ♪ you know, ronny... folks who save

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max baucus will be designated the ambassador to china.s been the leading democratic voice in the senate on trade. what effect will this have on any trade legislation next year? fast track. will anything happen question mark >> i talked to max yesterday. we are going to try to get some things done before he leaves. the president wants trade authority. this is the first in administration that did not want since fdr until march this year. -- ttp, the transpacific partnership, has to follow. i don't think we can negotiate the final agreement without letting them know we have a fast track to get this done for a yes or no vote. we have to start with the tpa, clan, then wethe can deal with the transpacific partnership. >> max baucus has been the champion of tax reform. that is dead now? >> on trade and taxes, i would make the obvious point that ron wyden is the likely successor as chairman of the committee. i spoke to him about this today. he is interested in the trade agenda. he always has been. he believes in trade. he thinks we need to knock

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and it's now a nationwide program because of chairman baucus. he is working very hard, as he indicated, we're working together to ensure that we do not see this cliff where 1.3 million americans lose their benefits on december 28. yesterday, madam president, i came to the floor to discuss some of the economics behind the logic of extending these benefits, and i believe that this extensive amount of economic research supports the very commonsense notion that i think the vast majority of our colleagues share, that americans want to work. they're in an environment, though, where jobs are scarce. there's two workers for every job and in some parts of the country that ratio is even much worse. however, i hear other colleagues say, well, that might be true, but we've got to fix this program because we've got abuse and we have fraud. well, the chairman and his efforts have always demonstrated that we are committed to rooting out any type of tpraupbd abuse. in -- fraud and abuse. in 2012, for example, we strengthened the requirement that you have to sea

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has baucus been pushing for this safari e guest: chairman baucus has been the tax.r one pushing for he has had a great relationship .eaching across the aisle they have been traveling all over the country on a tax reform tour. they have become good friends. now we are entering into unknown territory. is the new chairman going to have a good relationship with the finance chairman? that remains to be seen. guest: they have done triptych work on the committees this year, and probably the most serious -- some terrific work on the committees this year, and probably most serious discussion on tax reform that we've seen in years. ,t is a very big list, though no matter what the personality is. and you talk about getting the rate down to 25%, or 30%, or more like 25% is what the house any, and not losing revenue. you end up having to pay for it by losing tax preferences. there are many things that could be reduced. no one has named any really big ones. if they are planning to reduce. the problems get very hard when you start doing that. host: even if senator baucus were to stick around, if he w

baucus: madam president, mr. president, will the senator yield temporarily? mrs. shaheen: i will yield. i am almost finished, but i am happy to yield. the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. baucus: i very much thank the senator from new hampshire. i thought i had voted in the last vote. apparently it was not registered. had it been registered, i would have voted aye. i thank the senator. mrs. shaheen: thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: madam president, i'm pleased that this morning, after several months, we are finally going to get a chance to vote on landy mccafferty, who is a well-qualified, noncontroversial district court nominee. she has the support of senator ayotte, who also represents new hampshire. i have no doubt that landy mccafferty will be an outstanding federal district court judge, and i urge my colleagues to support her nomination when the vote comes up this morning. thank you very much. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fis

senator baucus released a statement saying the u.s.-china relationship is one of the world's most important bilateral relationships. if confirmed michael would be to further strengthen diplomatic and economic ties between our two nations. we will do from president obama this afternoon. afternoon. is only a news conference with reporters at the white house got his last one of the year before he takes off for a two-week family vacation in hawaii. we will have coverage beginning at 2 p.m. be turned live on c-span. >> if you're a middle or high school student on c-span studentcam video competition wants to know what's the most important issue congress should address next year. make a five to seven minute video and be sure to include c-span programming for your chance to win the grand prize of $5000, with $100,000 in total prizes. the deadline is january 20. get more info at studentcam.org. >> treasury secretary jack lew met with the philippine finance secretary yesterday here in washington. after the meeting the two delivered statements to

what max baucus is worried about is the fact that they own this. this is all theirs. they didn't reach out in a bipartisan way. george bush when he was passing the bush tax cuts, got a lot of democrat quick support. bill clinton reached out to the republicans to pass nafta. obama didn't reach out and now he owns it. it's all his. >> thanks, marc. the other side on the health care issue coming up. also, christians under attack in the middle east. now prince charles has taken a bold stand on the issue. our power panel weighs in. plus new details next on the marine facing potential military discharge for sending a warning of a taliban threat. he did it on his personal e-mail. how lawmakers and fellow marines are trying to save his career. that's next. >> i just think it is a cover-up. it just doesn't pan out what they are doing to this young man. he's a highly decorated officer. ♪ [ male announcer ] if we could see energy... what would we see? ♪ the billions of gallons of fuel that get us to work. ♪ we'd see all the electricity flowing through the devices that connect us

have a democratic governor potentially putting the lieutenant governor who's already running for max baucusthat democrats definitely want to hold. >> and coming up in 2014 are, you know, the key senate fights, which right now you've got mark pryor, embattled other red-state senators and the potential of losing the senate. >> right. the reason why the playing field looks so favorable for republicans, we're talking about arkansas, alaska. you look at louisiana, north carolina. north carolina is actually the most democratic leaning out of all the state and president obama lost it in 2012. looks good for republicans right now, but we have almost a year to go. >> mark murray, that's why we love politics. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow the show online and on twitter @mitchellreports. tamron hall has a look at what's next. >> hello, andrea. coming up, several developing stories in the next hour. first, india's foreign min stir demanding the united states drop a case against a diplomat that was strip searched. we'll have the latest. >>> plus, a judge decided just

>> it says max baucus will be an outstanding ambassador to china, and i would like a swift confirmation. the expectation and hope is that if both senate democrats, or if democrats and republicans in the house and the senate, are serious about tax reform, it is not going to depend on one guy. it is going to depend on all of us working together. and my office is ready, willing, and eager to engage both parties in a conversation about how we can simplify the tax code, make it fairer, make it work to create more jobs and do right by middle-class americans. jackie combs? >> thank you, mr. president. how do you say it in hawaii? >> mele kalikimaka. >> i would like to ask you what your reaction was to the nonpartisan truth telling group politifact when it said the lie of the year was your statement that if you like your health care plan you can keep it? related to the health care problems we have seen over the past year, the fallout from that seems to be making democrats particularly in the senate a little rambunctious and independent of you, evidenced most clearly in the debate over iran sanc

with respect to senator baucus, i think it is an excellent selection. why?it has the chinese will see it as one of the most senior people in the u.s. government, a person of stature, was close relationships with the president, coming to represent the united states. >> there is cyclical conversation about the decline of america. tell me why you think america is not losing its step in providing leadership for the world, not withstanding somebody who says, we are not sure about american leadership anymore. we think they are not in decline, but not prepared to play the role they used to. >> i would look at the fundamentals as the most important thing. the big thing -- a recent book called "strategic vision" has an assets and liabilities chart. i think that is a useful way to look at this. it cites american enduring strengths. if you did a balance sheet approach and thought about the fundamentals of going forward, and you did the list, the size of the economy, the wealth of our economy, our demographic future compared to our competitors, our geography, our milita

. >> senator max baucus was widely seen. the tax cut. what does your decision to nominate the ambassador to china say about their hopes for the second time. >> it says that max baucus will be an outstanding ambassador to china, and i would like a swift confirmation, and my expectation and hope is that if both the senate democrats, if democrats and republicans in the house and senate are serious about tax reform, then it is not goong to depend on one guy. we will depend upon all those working together. and my office is ready, willing, and eager to engage both parties in a conversation about how to simplify the tax cut and make it fair, make it work to create more jobs and do right by middle-class americans. jackie. >> thank you, mr. president. how do you say it in hawaii? [speaking in native tongue] [laughter] >> looking back at the year i would like to ask you what your reaction was to the nonpartisan group politico with said that the line of the year was your statement that if you like your health care plan you can keep it and related t

. >> the white house intends to nominate senator max baucus as the u.s. ambassador to china. the montana democrat announced he did not plan to run for a 7th term. if confirmed by the senate, the chair of the senate finance committee would replace gary lock. the arrest of an indian diplomat in new york city is straining the relationship between the u.s. and a long-time ally. standard arrest procedures were followed. the secretary of state john kerry is trying to smooth things over after the incident sparked outrage in india. we have this report. >> the international incident centres on this woman, devyani khobragade. india's deputy council general. the high level diplomat was arrested, charged with fraud. she was accused of paying a housekeeper from india less than promised, about $3 an hour, below the minimum wage, allegations denied by her attorney. >> she was paying her employee what they should have been paying her. indian officials allege the diplomat was taken into custody and handcuffed after dropping her daughter at school. she was strip searched in the gaol sell and l

except senator bachus and congressman camp have agreed on -- senator baucus and congressman camp have agreed on fast track. there was quite enormous opposition. to me what's news about the fast track situation in the u.s. is why these two guys who are the chairmen of the committees of jurisdiction haven't introduced any trade authority legislation despite their saying since easter of last year that they had a deal almost ready and it was going to go in at any moment. and so all these months have gone by which begs the question -- given what the house looks like on fast track, assuming the bill goes in tomorrow, there are four days left in the house. othing is going to get done. so next year when we're going to have crazy season kick in over the summer over the mid term elections, in six months is the republican house going to give the democratic president they just really love and respect fast track trade authority that took president bush two years, incredible blood, sweat and tears and lots of political deals to get accomplished by one vote? so to me what's fairly news worthy is the

>> it says max baucus will be an outstanding ambassador to china, and i would like a swift confirmation. the expectation and hope is that if both senate democrats, or if democrats and republicans in the house and the senate, are serious about tax reform, it is not going to depend on one guy. it is going to depend on all of us working together. and my office is ready, willing, and eager to engage both parties in a conversation about how we can simplify the tax code, make it fairer, make it work to create more jobs and do right by middle-class americans. jackie combs? >> thank you, mr. president. how do you say it in hawaii? >> mele kalikimaka. >> i would like to ask you what your reaction was to the nonpartisan truth telling group politifact when it said the lie of the year was your statement that if you like your health care plan you can keep it? related to the health care problems we have seen over the past year, the fallout from that seems to be making democrats particularly in the senate a little rambunctious and independent of you, evidenced most clearly in the debate over iran sanc

chairman baucus, ranking member hatch, members of the committee.the nominee to be the next commissioner of the internal revenue service. with your permission i will summarize my prepared statement and submit the full statement for the record. this past may when i was asked whether i was willing to serve as the next commissioner, i agree because i believe the successful operation of the internal revenue service is vital to this country. the activities of the irs touched virtually every american the agency collects over to a half trillion dollars per year, or 90 percent of the revenues collected by the government. this is a challenging time for the agency. of course as already mentioned on top of that all on the management problems that have shaken public trust in the agency. a longstanding commitment to public service and most of my career has been spent helping large organizations in both public and private sectors respond to significant financial and management challenges. if confirmed by look for deleting the irs as commissioner and to working wi