A Senate source e-mails:

Frist just asked unanimous consent to move to conference on the bill (a bill, you’ll recall, that prevents sexual predators and others from taking girls across state lines without parental notification). Remember that Durbin has been blocking the bill because, he says, he wants the Boxer/Ensign amendment included in whatever the conference committee comes back with. So today, Frist gave his word that he would not support, and the Senate would not consider, a conference bill that did not include the Boxer/Ensign amendment. Reid objected.

This is really outrageous, especially as Reid lectures about “common ground.”