Ethics Bill Will Return to Floor

Leaders Scrap Conference

• By John Stanton and Susan Davis
• Roll Call Staff
• July 19, 2007, Midnight

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have decided to abandon the normal conference committee process for long-stalled ethics legislation and will employ a little-used parliamentary tactic to push the legislation through Congress, Democratic and Republican aides close to the issue said Wednesday.