Roll Call (subscription required) reports that Senate Majority Reid plans to initiate lobbying and ethics reform with a previous GOP-authored bill. This bill passed in the Senate was opposed by some Senators and advocacy groups for being too weak. By using the old bill, it can be brought straight to the floor because it already had broad support. The Senate bill, which passed 90-8 in March, bans all gifts and meals from lobbyists, doubles the one-year cooling off period for staffers and lawmakers-turned-lobbyists, and requires lawmakers to receive preapproval from the Ethics Committee before taking privately funded trips.