One of the last remaining issues left for lawmakers to deal with in this session is ethics reform.

Speaker of the House Glenn Cummings has proposed two modest but essential measures to limit legislators' ability to vote on issues in which they have a personal, financial interest, or to do business as private citizens with government agencies whose budgets they oversee as legislators.

On Monday, the Senate voted to ditch those two reforms. But you won't be able to find out who voted to pass the reforms and who voted against them because the good members of the Senate did not -- as they could and should have -- record individual votes.

If the Senate wants to kill significant ethics reform, senators have that prerogative.

But if they're going to do that, they should have the courage to do it on the record.

There are still votes to be made on this proposal, and we challenge the members of the Legislature's upper body to be accountable and take their stand on ethics reform publicly.