The Hill offers this report, which begins: “The Capitol’s bipartisan and bicameral crew of reform-minded lawmakers renewed their quest yesterday for stronger limits on member contact with K Street, though their plan for an independent ethics enforcement office could run into trouble in next year’s Congress. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) were joined by Reps. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Marty Meehan (D-Mass.), all highlighting the role of congressional corruption in last month’s midterm turnabout and vowing to pass lobbying and ethics reform in the early days of the 110th Congress. ‘Waves of reform sweep the political beaches, and this wave was coming,’ McCain said. He and Feingold are also planning to resume their drive for campaign-finance regulation, which produced a landmark crackdown in 2002, and includes politically precarious curbs on 527 spending.”