What was Nancy Pelosi talking about in "referring to ethics committee"?

[kentuck]

I heard her mention that the Senate or House had sent a bill to the President to be signed that had not followed the proper course. Rather than unethical, it sounded "illegal" to me...?

[GregD]

1. the budget bill

that was improperly submitted to * for signing.

[cal04]

2. House Democratic Leader Wants Budget Probe

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded an ethics investigation Thursday into the passage of deficit-reduction legislation that President Bush recently signed, a new twist in an episode of Capitol intrigue that blends election-year politics and questions of constitutional law.

"Republican leaders chose to ignore House rules, precedent and even the Constitution itself" in sending the politically charged measure to the White House, said Pelosi, D-Calif.

She said the legislation was defective because it had cleared the two houses in different forms, and added that Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., "knew full well this was an invalid bill."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021601658.html