21.   A powerful state legislator who owns a child-care center is sponsoring a bill that critics say could let day-care operators off the hook in child-abuse cases.

22.   A solid majority of the Senate has already agreed to sponsor the bill.

23.   Also, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has sponsored a bill to end tax-free financing for stadiums.

24.   Brownback has sponsored another bill that may come up later this week.

25.   But a bill sponsored by state Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos, D-Austin, would make it extremely difficult to obtain approval from state regulators for such transfers.

26.   But Gwadosky and the legislators who sponsored the bills are encroaching on a tradition close to the populist hearts of Mainers.

27.   But he has successfully sponsored bills, including a law requiring insurers to reimburse policyholders for mammograms, and he wrote legislation that created a commission on Holocaust education.

28.   But many who volunteered were rebuffed because they lacked security credentials, said Wyden, who is sponsoring a bill to start a new force.

29.   But Rep. Joe Scarborough, R-Fla., who sponsored the bill, disputed that assertion, saying the proposal would affect only illegal sales.

30.   But the bill is sponsored, among others, by Senator John McCain, a respected Republican.