Following a return to the Capitol yesterday a week after revealing a months-long affair with a former aide, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) today snuck in the back door of the weekly Republican policy lunch -- eluding a large group of reporters awaiting his arrival near the room's front door.

Reporters held place at a stakeout location outside a set of elevators that most senators use on their way to the lunch. One-by-one, senators would step off an elevator, but each time it wasn't the right one.

Judd Gregg, nope. Olympia Snowe, not even close. A few reporters gathered around John McCain and Lindsey Graham, but they weren't who everyone was waiting for.

Roland Burris? Not even the right party.

Finally, word spread that Ensign had gone up a back stairwell and slipped in the back door without being noticed.