Per word confirmed by Senate Minority Leader Reid's office and via the apparent blogo-euphoric Dr. Frist, there now appear to be no current holds now on S. 2590... for now. Meanwhile, OMB Watch joined a broad spectrum of groups yesterday to promote S. 2590 at a Capitol Hill press conference. The Hill has an excellent piece on it today. Also take a look at the joint sign-on letter signed by 82 organizations in support of S. 2590 organized by the National Taxpayers Union and OMB Watch. The letter was sent to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) after the press conference yesterday.

The controversy over secret Senate legislative holds following the confession by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) last week rages on. The trailblazing reformer Trent Lott has just found religion. "Secret holds are outrageous…. It's one of the fundamental problems we have in the Senate today. It's abused and misused… It's corrosive." And now today even Stevens has seen the light and lifted his hold on the database bill "now that [Coburn] has ceased blocking several Commerce Committee with his secret holds." But wait, there's more —- Bill Frist can't resist joining the fun:

We reported earlier last week that Congress had passed legislation that pushed some Medicare spending for this year into next year. Now the White House might get into the game, too. Budget guru Stan Collender has been hearing rumors that the White House might delay some spending from this fiscal year until the next.

Wall Street fatcats, beware! The Senate Finance and Banking Committees are watching you, and they're sick and tired of your greedy, cheatin' ways. Seriously. They each called hearings today on executive compensation.