In other death threat news, some people are taking the transfer of power in the Senate more seriously than others. This from the Associated Press: A lobbyist for the Louisiana Home Builders Association was questioned by U.S. Capitol Police for allegedly making a death threat against U.S. Senator James Jeffords of Vermont. Jeffords has been under the protection of the Capitol Police since his announcement last month that he was leaving the Republican Party to become an independent, a move that shifted control of the Senate to the Democrats. Jeffords’s switch prompted several death threats to the senator. Some were made over the telephone, and others in writing. The incident with a lobbyist happened on Thursday. The man, whose name was not released, was said to be on his way to a meeting at the office of Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, when he passed by Jeffords’s seventh floor office in the Hart Building. He went into the office and made a comment to a Jeffords aide. The Capitol Police caught up with him at Landrieu’s office, according to a report in The Advocate of Baton Rouge. Bruce Smith, the president of the National Association of Home Builders, issued a written statement acknowledging the incident, condemning it and apologizing to Jeffords. In the interest of disclosure, the vice chair of the Pacifica board is with the National Association of Home Builders in Washington, D.C.