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RALEIGH -- State lawmakers continued their debate on Thursday on an ethics, campaign finance and government reform bill.

State Senate Majority Leader Martin Nesbitt pulled the bill Wednesday from the Senate floor and returned it to a judiciary committee for more debate.

Nesbitt says some senators are concerned how it would extend the public financing program to five more Council of State positions.

In a narrow committee vote on Thursday, a reform measure to increase the number of so called voter owned elections was stripped.

Republicans said they couldn't accept the package because it contained public financing, which the GOP largely opposes.

Some good government advocates also don't think the reforms go far enough.