Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is testifying right now before the Senate Banking Committee on the financial rescue re-modeling he unveiled this morning. Many senior senators are just now getting up to speed on the outlines of the new Treasury plan, but the emerging consensus among Democrats is cautious approval of Geithner’s goals (even as Republicans blast those goals as unclear).
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