“Max Baucus” on The Daily Caller

Senate Democrats will attempt to pass a millionaire surtax this week because it provides a campaign trail alternative to President Barack Obama’s unpopular tax proposal. (more)

If you’re looking for information about the inner workings of Congress’ secretive debt-reduction “super committee,” you won’t find it in the newspaper or on cable news. But for a hefty fee, you can buy access in the form of a Capitol Hill staffer-turned-lobbyist. (more)

Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the ranking member and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, respectively, on Tuesday introduced an amendment to the Constitution that would allow Congress to pass laws preventing the physical desecration of the American flag. Tuesday was Flag Day. (more)

On Thursday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officially re-published a 2009 rule removing the gray wolf’s federal protection under the Endangered Species Act in most states of the Northern Rockies. (more)

Environmentalists are howling over a policy “rider” in the just-passed spending bill that delists wolves from an endangered species list in some states. (more)

Jared Loughner’s question for Gabrielle Giffords was utterly incomprehensible. When the Arizona representative couldn’t makes sense of Loughner’s nonsense during a 2007 rally, it set the alleged Tucson gunman off (“Can you believe it, they wouldn’t answer my question“). Loughner felt ignored and then the questions stopped. (more)

President Obama said in the State of the Union address he is willing to ditch a burdensome tax reporting provision in Obamacare that may be the least popular part of his health care law. (more)

As Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele recently put it, it is the best of times and the worst of times for Republicans and their ability to influence legislation in Congress. (more)

Senate lawmakers expect a bipartisan group of negotiators to announce a deal in the coming days that would extend the Bush tax cuts for two years and federal unemployment benefits for up to a year. (more)

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that he expected the “recipe” for a tax-cut compromise to included extensions of unemployment benefits and Bush-era tax rates for all income brackets. (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to schedule two votes on Saturday on Democratic plans to end Bush-era tax breaks for the nation’s highest income earners. (more)

President Obama’s debt commission Friday received support from 11 of 18 members, falling short of the 14 votes needed for what would have been more of a symbolic passage than anything else. (more)

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that there is no deal imminent with Republicans on which tax cuts from the Bush administration era, calling reports of an agreement “inaccurate and premature.” (more)

The penultimate meeting of President Obama’s debt commission Wednesday was a data-heavy affair, with members and reporters poring over the 58-page final report brimming with facts and figures. (more)

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans’ ban on earmarks – money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest – was short-lived. (more)

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is vowing to bring the immigration-related “DREAM Act” to the Senate floor and some Senate Republicans are sounding the alarm bells, highlighting that it would offer amnesty to an estimated 2.1 million illegal aliens. (more)

The Democrats are in trouble in the United States Senate come November. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — End tax breaks that reward some U.S. companies with overseas subsidiaries and encourage those businesses to create jobs in other countries, President Barack Obama is telling Congress. (more)

WASHINGTON—The Senate’s chief tax writer has called for a federal investigation into advocacy groups that have become increasingly popular vehicles for outside donations. (more)

The tax-and-spend crowd in Congress is at it again, trying to pass new taxes that would raise energy prices and further deplete already overstretched family budgets. When are they going to understand that seniors, retirees, the unemployed, working class families and the many other Americans who are counting every penny these days simply can no longer afford to pay for their pet projects? (more)