Brian Schweitzer

Brian Schweitzer

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  Baucus exit could be free-for-all for Mont. Senate

  U.S. Sen. Max Baucus' surprise announcement that he won't run for a seventh term could mean a free-for-all for a Senate seat that has not been open ... 

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  Montana Democrat Baucus rules out 7th Senate term

  Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana announced plans Tuesday to retire at the end of his term after a career of enormous power and ... 

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  Top Dem sees 'train wreck' for health law rollout

  A senior Democratic senator who helped write President Barack Obama's health care law stunned administration officials Wednesday, saying openly he ... 

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  Coal decline hits fuel's Western stronghold

  Hundreds of millions of tons of coal, packed into seams up to 60 feet thick, are still to be had beneath the rock-strewn hillsides speckled with snow ... 

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  Senators ask if coal exports skirt royalties

  Lawmakers asked the U.S. Department of Interior on Friday to review whether companies are shortchanging federal and state governments out of millions ...