BACHMANN UPDATE. The Post. “The FBI is scheduling interviews related to allegations of financial impropriety in Rep. Michele Bachmann’s 2012 campaign.”

WEINER WIFE WAIVER. NY Times. “The State Department, under Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, created an arrangement for her longtime aide and confidante Huma Abedin to work for private clients as a consultant while serving as a top adviser in the department.”

COMMENT ON PROPOSED SEC MOVE ON POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. “The submitted Article puts forth a comprehensive, empirically-grounded case for the rules advocated in the Petition. The Article also provides a detailed response to each of the ten objections that have been raised by the Petition’s opponents, either in the comment file or elsewhere. The Article shows that none of these objections, either individually or collectively, provides a basis for opposing rules requiring public companies to disclose political spending.”

MN: DISCLOSURE DROPPED. Story here. “Three provisions have been dropped from a campaign finance bill that would have required some political groups to say more about where their money is coming from and how it is being spent.”

NV: MILLER AND CFR. Here. “An out-of-state conservative group wants you to call Democratic Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller and tell him that you’re ‘sick of his costly hypocrisy.'”

NV: TESTIMONY IN TRIAL. News here. “Two more of Harvey Whittemore’s former employees testified Monday they each voluntarily contributed $4,600 to Sen. Harry Reid’s campaign in 2007 at the suggestion of the wealthy ex-developer and lobbyist but didn’t fear for their jobs if they didn’t do so.”

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