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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay : Senate Democrats managed to push health care reform legislation past a key hurdle on Saturday night, with a cloture vote that will lead to a debate on the Senate floor later this month, the Associated Press reported.

It would be a slight exaggeration to call today "D-Day" for health care reform but it is certainly big day nonetheless.

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, back in Montana on family business, intends to vote in favor of the Senate health care bill when it reaches a crucial weekend test in Washington D.C. Baucus led a key piece of the Senate health care reform by advancing legislation out of his Senate Finance Committee earlier this fall.

While Montanans generally approve of the work top state elected officials are doing this year, the lack of resolution in one key national issue - healthcare - is having a big effect on how people view the performance of U.S. Sen.

A health-care overhaul proposed by Senate Democrats will cost $849 billion over 10 years, Senate leaders said Wednesday, and slash the deficit by $127 billion over the next decade.

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The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, met on Monday night with a group of liberal Senate Democrats who urged Mr.

Sen. Barbara Boxer said today in an interview with HuffPo's Sam Stein and Ryan Grim that efforts to add Stupak's Coathanger amendment in the Senate would very likely fail.

For weeks, Sen. Max Baucus has opposed climate change legislation. In the Environment and Public Works Committee, he openly voiced his doubts and was the only Democrat to refrain from voting for the bill's passage.

Economists told a Senate panel on Tuesday that legislation to combat global warming could kill jobs in refining, manufacturing and other industries, even as union and energy company leaders hailed the promise of a new "green" workforce trained in renewable power.

WASHINGTON - When Sen. Max Baucus cast the lone vote against a climate-change bill proposed by fellow Democrats last week, it seemed like bad news to those who want something done about global warming.

Kevin Furey More than 100,000 veterans live in Montana; only Alaska boasts more per-capita and Montana has the highest military volunteer rate in the country.

In honor of Veteran's Day, Montana's Sen. Max Baucus and Sen. Jon Tester spoke Tuesday on the floor of the U.S. Senate to pay tribute to Montana's service members, past and present.

A powerful U.S. senator on Tuesday called for tough trade protections that may complicate global climate change talks, while U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon traveled to Washington to push for progress on a deal.

Former President Bill Clinton arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Nov.

Max Baucus , D-Mont., a key coal-state senator -- will look at how jobs could be affected.

WASHINGTON - A week after rejecting the application for tribal recognition filed by Montana's Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Interior Department officials conceded Wednesday that the certification process is flawed and needs reform.

Gov. Brian Schweitzer has more than two years to go on his second four-year term, but that won't stop potential candidates from testing the waters this far out from the 2012 elections.

Senate Democrats in the Environment and Public Works Committee finally squelched Republican boycotts and passed a version of the climate bill yesterday morning.

Texas has a history of balancing its state budget during even the worst of economic times, but if a U.S. Senate Finance Committee proposal to expand Medicaid passes, the state might have no choice but to raise taxes dramatically.