Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) is hitting the airwaves early in his bid for a sixth term, with radio and TV ads highlighting his role as Senate Finance Committee chairman in the crafting of recent legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), and criticizing President Bush for his expected veto of the bill:

The commercial features the image of Abigail Tuhy, one of "14,000 Montana kids who count on the Children's Health Insurance Program."

"I'm so disappointed that President Bush decided to veto my bill, because we can cover those 14,000 kids like Abigail for a year for what we spend in Iraq in a day," Baucus says.