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By Sunlight Foundation & Participatory Politics Foundation

• Senate urges Obama to pardon the first black heavyweight champ (AP).

• Read the resolution (OpenCongress).

• Harry Reid gets the dubious honor of worst Daily Show guest ever (Glenn Thrush).

• Paulson will testify to Congress on how the BofA takeover of Merrill Lynch went down (Bloomberg).

• Ahead of Obama’s big immigration meeting Thursday, Schumer outlines the Senate’s immigration plans (WaPo).

• Finally, some progress made on the Howard Koh nomination (The Cable).

• Organizing for paper ballots (Democracy for New Mexico).

• OMB recommends veto of defense authorization if it contains F-22 money (Think Progress).

• Baucus regrets not considering a single-payer health care system (Matt Yglesias).

• Environmental groups now looking to the Senate for improving the climate bill (Grist).

• New poll shows tepid support for the House’s climate bill (WaPo

• CREW calls for an investigation of employment-related issues surrounding the Ensign affair (CREW).

• Sen. Kerry’s comment on Sanford: too bad Sarah Palin didn’t go missing instead (Boston Herald).

• S. 1318 – Axe the Stimulus Plaques Act (OpenCongress).

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Full post as published by Open Congress on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).