• Geithner won't rule out firing more executives of private companies.
• Meanwhile, the Treasury Department refuses to disclose details of TARP funding to congressionally-mandated oversight panel created specifically to monitor bailout spending.
• Senate bill would federalize network security, forcing even private companies to use federally-mandated systems.
• Combined federal government commitment on bailouts hits $12.8 trillion, a 70 percent increase since November, and nearly 90 percent of total U.S. GDP for 2008.
• Oregon bill would raise the smoking age to 21.
• New drug czar says at hearing he will focus on demand reduction, prevention rather than enforcement.
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