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By Sunlight Foundation & Participatory Politics Foundation

• House Democrats make progress on the DISCLOSE Act by exempting the NRA. (POLITICO)
• The FBI released its previously secret file on the late Sen. Edward Kennedy [D-MA]. (AP)
• Reps. Waxman [D, CA-30] and Stupak [D, MI-1] accuse BP of taking shortcuts with oil well safety, leading to gulf spill. (Reuters)
• Congressional Democrats, worried about a repeat of last summer’s enraged health care protests, are avoiding town hall meetings. (NYTimes)
• Progress is being made on the Financial Regulation Bill. (Reuters)
• Rep. Bob Etheridge [D, NC-02] apologizes after a video is released showing him lashing out at an anonymous harassing interviewer. (CNN)
• President Obama presses the GOP to stop blocking the Medicare doc-fix bill. (WallStreetJournal)
• Congress in considering extending the closing date for the first-time homebuyer’s tax credit (WallStreetJournal)
• President Obama urges Congress to pass a bill that spends $23 billion to save public worker jobs and $25 billion for additional Medicaid funding. (Washington Independent)
• Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s [D, AR] provision to stop banks from getting government subsidies fro derivatives may actually make it into the final financial reform bill. (Financial Times)

Full post as published by Open Congress on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).