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By Sunlight Foundation & Participatory Politics Foundation

• Congress starts thinking about online privacy legislation (Forbes).

• Rep. Burton wants to protect the House from terrorists by enclosing it in Plexiglas (The Sleuth).

• Sen. Ensign cancels his golf fundraising event (Party Time).

• The Obama Admin helped the House tone down its Iran resolution (Glenn Thrush).

• House intelligence committee approves NSA oversight bills (WaPo).

• House impeaches federal judge from Texas (AP).

• Car dealers are excited for “cash for clunkers” (WSJ).

• Burris heads straight to the Senate Ethics Committee (AP).

• “Read the Bill” legislation introduced in the House (Sunlight Foundation).

• Read the “Read the Bill” bill (OpenCongress)

• See the bills passed by Congress that they probably have not read (OpenCongress).

• Next week’s House schedule (Steny Hoyer).

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Full post as published by Open Congress on June 20, 2009 (boomark / email).