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By Sunlight Foundation & Participatory Politics Foundation

• Treasury Secretary Geithner (above) defends his regulatory plans at a Senate Banking hearing (WSJ

• Tyler Cowen makes the case for making the Fed the systemic risk regulator (Marginal Revolution).

• Simon Johnson rips the Obama admin regulatory plan into pieces and doesn’t find much of substance (Baseline Scenario).

• …As does Barry Ritholtz (The Big Picture).

• Pelosi: “The American people want to know more of the ‘Secrets of the Temple,’” (Glenn Thrush).

• This one’s a few days old: Group of Dem senators team up to push Obama further on regulatory reform (Newsweek).

• The health care reform effort is running into some problems (Ezra Klein).

• Blue Dogs and New Dems team up to fight a public health care option (The Hill).

• Yale asks 11 environmental experts for their takes on Waxman-Markley (Yale Environment 360).

• Rep. Posey’s “birther” bill is picking up some co-sponsors (Washington Independent).

• Sen. Coburn’s “100 Questionable Stimulus Projects” (Option ARMarmageddon).

• Senate unanimously approves an official apology for slavery and segregation (AP).

• Read the full text of the Senate slavery-apology resolution (OpenCongress).

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Full post as published by Open Congress on June 19, 2009 (boomark / email).