Opinion: With a new president and Congress, it's critical lawmakers be responsive to voters' economic concerns.

They were D.C. newcomers elected by voters tired of Washington political scandals. Max Baucus was elected to Montana’s western U.S. House District three months after Richard Nixon resigned in 1974.

Baucus, like other Montanans familiar with the 39th president, remembered Carter’s graciousness and the plain-spoken way in ...

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