Voting is still happening in the Senate on the small business lending bill, but it’s unclear whether they will reach agreement on amendments or invoke cloture tonight. If anything changes I’ll let you know. And also…

• Having exempted auto loans from CFPB oversight, GM is jumping into the subprime car loan business. Don’t worry, though, it’s all perfectly safe, and won’t result in price gouging or wage-garnishing or anything.

• The House passed a standalone border security bill last night, after John McCain and his buddies stripped the war supplemental of border security. Will McCain, who accused unions of wanting to recruit undocumented workers for their nefarious organizing schemes, vote against border security again, and give his opponents more gems to be made into commercials?

• The House also passed a slew of manufacturing bills yesterday, one of which (a miscellaneous tariff bill) will actually pass into law, as the Senate managed to pass it. Lawmaking, what a concept! Small ball stuff, but something.

• What can you even say about this Administration power grab, attempting to authorize more warrantless searches? Marcy Wheeler and Adam Serwer say all that is needed to be said. What a disappointment.

• Lindsey Graham, a nominal supporter of immigration reform, also wants to end birthright citizenship out of fear of the anchor babies. What a forthright bipartisan statesman he is.

• With the DISCLOSE Act dead, at least in terms of affecting the 2010 elections, here come the inevitable corporate front organizations looking to pummel Democrats.

• Under-the-radar, but important: the movement to unionize banks.

• Howard Dean offers some red meat, writes out the speech I imagine he would have given at Netroots Nation if he showed up this year.

• Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are worried about the direction of the Basel III international financial negotiations, want hearings.

• The CEO of Moody’s has an uncanny knack of selling off his stocks right before they go down. It’s so celebrated that the SEC wants to know how he did it!

• Fred Barnes, partisan operative. Literally everything the right accuses Journolist of is a reflection of what they do on a daily basis.

• Your modern GOP: voting against health care for 9/11 workers.

• I appreciate Wikileaks’ willingness to put the facts out, but they should have done a better job redacting the names of Afghan informants, and the raw intelligence they released in the Afghan war logs isn’t always reliable.

• Dems to GOP: shut up and quit your whining about the New Black Panther Party.

• Sharron Angle, who doesn’t know the difference between a bill and a law, also is unclear on the difference between a legitimate campaign fundraising company and basically a loanshark, which is the shady firm she’s using.

• I believe you’ll keep hearing about the public option for a long time.

• Is Prudential profiting off of dead US soldiers?

• This is not the same set of statements that I heard Dick Durbin say in June about the filibuster. Maybe he’s finally fed up.

• Considering the accuracy of the phrase, I would keep using “Bush recession”.

• Rand Paul says to stop worrying and learn to love mountaintop removal coal mining.

• Are Venezuela and Colombia headed for war?

• I used every single Facebook security mode that I could, so I’m confident I’m not in this release of 100 million users’ personal data. I don’t really use Facebook much, though, for this reason.