The first is sponsored by former Republican, now Independent Senator Jim Jeffords, chairman of the Senate Environment Committee, who proposes to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants.
For example, the DLC's chairman during the years the IRS alleges it wasn't bipartisan enough was Senator Joseph Lieberman, now running as an independent after Connecticut's Democratic primary voters rejected him for being too pro-Bush.
"We ought to be able to run the state of Maine without taxing Girl Scout cookies, " said Mr. King, now the state's junior U.S. senator and an independent.