According to BNA: While House leaders held out hope June 27 that lawmakers could send President Bush a lobbying and ethics reform conference report in the next three days, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said consideration of the measure would extend into July Also of interest is a letter, sent by Sens. Charles Grassley, James Inhofe, and Ron Wyden, and signed by 29 Senators, urging conferees to keep in language that ends the practice of secret holds in the Senate. The letter says: The use of anonymous holds in the Senate undermines public accountability, and eighty-four senators have voted to end this shadowy practice. The Senate has spoken and we expect this standing order to remain intact in the final conference report on the Lobby Reform Bill. See also a great Washingon Post editorial on congress' unwillingness to act on lobby reform.