BUDGET BATTLES. Senator Max Baucus (D- Montana) and Representative Dave Camp (R- Michigan) are duking it out on unemployment benefit extensions, and Medicare reinbursements. The former, originally covering 99 weeks, is brokered down to 59 by Republicans, 73 by the President and 93 by Senate Democrats. Its funding should come from Federal pensions and other. The medical reinbursement would be funded by cuts in prevention care and the public health fund, cutting aid to hospitals with bad debt and other. Here's to the will to juggle spending.