About the Committee
![Full Committee Photo](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121204181259im_/http://www.finance.senate.gov/images/about/full-committee-photo.png)
Pictured above are Senate Finance Committee Members from the 111th Congress.
(Standing: Thomas R. Carper, Robert Menendez, Bill Nelson, Maria Cantwell, Debbie Stabenow, Charles E. Schumer, Ron Wyden, Jim Bunning, Pat Roberts, John Ensign, Michael B. Enzi, John Cornyn; Seated: Blanche L. Lincoln, John F. Kerry, Jeff Bingaman, John D. Rockefeller, IV, Chairman Max Baucus, Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, Orrin G. Hatch, Olympia J. Snowe, Jon Kyl; Not Present: Kent Conrad, Mike Crapo)
Committee Leadership
![Senator Max Baucus](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121204181259im_/http://www.finance.senate.gov/images/about/max-baucus.jpg)
Chairman
Max Baucus
A fifth-generation Montanan, Max Baucus is working to cut taxes for hard-working Americans, improve our health care system, protect Social Security and Medicare and open new markets for trade.
![Senator Orrin Hatch](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121204181259im_/http://www.finance.senate.gov/images/about/orrin-hatch.jpg)
Ranking Member
Orrin G. Hatch
This is “America’s Priorities” Committee. Overseeing over 50% of the federal budget, Orrin Hatch is fighting to lower taxes, strengthen Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and open markets to American products.
Democrats
![Wyden, Ron](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121204181259im_/http://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/image/member_ron-wyden.jpg)
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