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So Ari Berman thinks, "The rap on Baucus is that he has always valued his own re-election above all else" ["K Street's Favorite Democrat," March 19]. That is the rap on politicians, all politicians. Trying to make it a rap on an individual politician is one of the willful distortions Berman uses to try to make Max Baucus look like a bad senator. Another is calling it "remarkable" that chairman Baucus shows "deference" to the senior Republican during Finance Committee hearings. In our interview for this article, I told Ari that every Finance chair has always shown deference to the senior member of the minority party during hearings.
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