In Today’s Times
- The Securities and Exchange Commission is mulling a new rule to require publicly traded companies to disclose all of their political donations to shareholders, setting up a fight between businesses and a loose coalition advocating for greater transparency, Nicholas Confessore writes.
- The bipartisan immigration proposal under consideration in the Senate would improve national security, Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, told the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, as the bill’s architects considered ways to minimize political fallout, Ashley Parker writes.
- Democrats have one more seat to defend in 2014 if they hope to keep control of the Senate after Senator Max Baucus of Montana announced that he would retire after 36 years in the chamber, Jonathan Weisman reports.
- Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee worry that the handling of clues about one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects indicates that communication barriers between intelligence agencies, which they sought to break down after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, are being rebuilt, Eric Schmitt and Julia Preston write.
Happenings in Washington
- Economic reports expected Wednesday include durable goods for March and weekly jobless claims at 8:30 a.m., followed at 10 a.m. by weekly mortgage rates.
- Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew and Michael P. Huerta, the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, will discuss President Obama’s budget proposal before separate House Appropriations subcommittees.
- At 10 a.m., Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of health and human services, will testify about the president’s budget proposal at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing. At a separate hearing, Ray Mabus, the Navy secretary; Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, the chief of naval operations; and Gen. James F. Amos, the commandant of the Marine Corps, will testify on the budget proposal.
- At 10:30 a.m., the Joint Economic Committee will begin hearings to examine long-term unemployment, focusing on consequences and solutions.
- At 2 p.m., Ashley Campbell will testify on behalf of her father, the country music singer Glen Campbell, at a hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging on a national plan to address Alzheimer’s disease.
- Mr. Obama will meet with Mr. Lew and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at 3:30 p.m. before traveling to Dallas for a fund-raiser and the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
