1.   All of those measures have Democratic sponsors, and some Republican support.

2.   But she has had trouble finding Democratic sponsors for the bill, and even her Republican support is lukewarm.

3.   But the legislation has yet to even attract a Democratic sponsor in the Senate.

4.   Democratic sponsors of the bill cut deals with moderate Republicans to win their votes, but refused to make major concessions to President Bush.

5.   Feingold was the chief Democratic sponsor of campaign finance reform legislation in the Senate.

6.   Hatch is trying to line up Republican support, and Kennedy is seeking Democratic sponsors.

7.   Last year, Gephardt privately asked Neal to become the chief Democratic sponsor of the tax cut, according to an individual familiar with the conversation.

8.   Representative Richard Neal seems an unlikely choice to be the chief Democratic sponsor of legislation that would halve the federal tax on beer.

9.   Republicans repeatedly Thursday portrayed as bipartisan the efforts to change those rules, pointing to the fact that each amendment had a Democratic sponsor.

10.   Sen. John Glenn of Ohio, the leading Democratic sponsor of the legislation, is among those offering refinements of this kind.