Democrat Embraces Republican in Unlikely Big Tax Law Bid

Senator Max Baucus and Representative Dave Camp, wearing pink hairnets, yellow hard hats and three-quarter-length baker’s aprons, ducked beneath a river of warm hamburger buns in Minnesota as they searched for a path around the obstacles they’re encountering in Washington.

The bipartisan duo is trying to rewrite the U.S. tax code in the next 18 months by leveraging their friendship into legislation. They brought their chummy rapport -- Democrat Baucus introduced Republican Camp as his “buddy” and “comrade” -- to Baldinger Bakery in St. Paul and 3M Co.’s headquarters in Maplewood yesterday at the start of a national tour intended to take them outside the Washington bubble.