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NUMBER PUNCH

7 BILLION. Approximate dollars the United States fails to collect in sales taxes from online retailers, according to Donald Bruce, an econ associate professor at the University of Tennessee, on NPR’s Kojo Nnamdi Show Tuesday. 

SCHEDULED

10 a.m. House Appropriations Committee hearing on FY2011 FCC budget request, 359 Rayburn House Office Building.

FOR THE WATERCOOLER

LOST IN TRANSLATION: A faulty translation of a white paper published by the Chinese government has the country praising Twitter, which has been banned in China since last year. The English translation mistakenly substituted the general term “microblogs” with “Twitter,” an “apparent glitch,” says the AP.