Ethics Bill Will Return to Floor

Leaders Scrap Conference

By John Stanton and Susan Davis
Roll Call Staff

July 19, 2007

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.

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