Member, 2011 Debt Super Commission (i.e. Joint Select Commission on Deficit Reduction).
U.S. Representative (D-Montana) (January 3, 1975-December 14, 1978).
U.S. Senator (D-Montana) (December 15, 1978 - February 6, 2014).
Member, U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Chairman, U.S. Senate Finance Committee (2001, 2001-2003, 2007-2014).
On January 7, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Max Baucus to be Ambassador of the United States of America to China. He was confirmed by the Senate on February 6, 2014, and was sworn in on February 21, 2014.
While in the Senate, Ambassador Baucus was Chairman and Ranking Member of the powerful Senate Committee on Finance. While Chairman, he was the chief architect of the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) which was signed by President Barack Obama into law March 23, 2009.
Before his election to the U.S. Senate, Ambassador Baucus represented Montana in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1978 and represented Missoula, Montana in the Montana House of Representatives from 1973 to 1974.