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Sen Finance chair wants Geithner hearing Friday

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Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:43pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus sought consent from panel members to hold a hearing on President-elect Barack Obama's Treasury secretary nominee, Timothy Geithner, on Friday, the panel said on Tuesday.

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Baucus, a Montana Democrat, sought permission from the rest of the panel to hold the hearing on Friday at 10 a.m., according to a statement released by the committee. The committee's rules require seven days advance notice for hearings, it said.

Geithner's nomination ran into some problems over a housekeeper who worked briefly for him without proper immigration papers and several years when Geithner did not pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for himself.

(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, editing by Leslie Adler)
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