• How Wall Street paid off Washington to push changes in accounting rules. (Wonk Room via WSJ)

• Sen Cornyn: “We don’t have enough Republicans to filibuster even if we wanted to, which I don’t think we do.” (Congress Matters)

• The war supplemental gets bigger (Politico)

• Did you know that the Director of the Congressional Budget Office has a blog? (Director’s Blog)

• Are Democrats rushing health care to keep the details form the public? (Commentary)

• Cool chart: sort states by change in GDP, change in jobs, or change in home prices. (Real Time Economics)

• Creator of The Wire presses Congress to relax “certain anti-trust prohibitions with regard to the newspaper industry.” (Gawker)

• Stimulative issues with the “Buy American” provision (New York Times)

• Former Sen. Fritz Hollings: must enforce “Buy American” if we are to save the economy. (HuffPo)

• In case your interested, lots of new pics on the White House flickr (Flickr)

• Harkin says EFCA is still very much on the table. (PWW)

• Bernanke warns deficits threaten financial security (Bloomberg)

• Sen. Bunning responds: "Bernanke helped open up the floodgates of government spending for the last year.” (Glenn Thrush).
  
  

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