Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) slammed Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) for his invocation of the Kennedy name on the Senate floor yesterday, calling it “disrespectful” and “unseemly” to invoke the Democratic family’s name in opposition to health care reform.Barrasso provoked Baucus’ ire by referencing John F. Kennedy’s book “Profiles In Courage,” and saying that the health care debate “needs one courageous Democrat, one out of 60, to stand up and say ‘I am going to vote no.'”
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