1.0 link 200515 <![CDATA[Handwritten Notes Show Fed Oversight Bill Neutered On Senate Floor]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/handwritten-notes-show-fe_n_200515.html Legislation to give Congress greater oversight of the Federal Reserve was severely watered down on the Senate floor Wednesday in private negotiations between two powerful Republican senators.

Thanks to an overlooked document posted on the website of Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, voters can virtually watch the water being dumped into the brew that Grassley had hoped to force the Fed to drink. (See the document at the bottom of this story.)

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