Roll Call offers this report ($), which begins: “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. Spokesmen for Reid and Pelosi declined to comment for this story. But a House Democratic leadership aide said leadership discussions this week have produced a tentative plan for the House and Senate to vote on identical language with no amendments attached in order to circumvent the conference process and get the bill to President Bush’s desk.” The article also reports that bundling disclosure by lobbyists remains the “last hurdle” to be resolved.