Officials have said that there was nothing improper in the requests by the Fed to leave out what it considered irrelevant information and that Mr. Geithner was not involved at the time with the A.I.G. bailout.
"The reasons given in the requests are insufficient to warrant waiver of the unambiguous filing deadline imposed by the Florida Legislature," she said, gripping tightly a dark binder that held her statement and biting her lip several times while reading.
The former pardon attorney, Deborah Leff, resigned in January citing a lack of resources and direct access to the White House counsel which she feared would result "in the requests of thousands of petitioners seeking justice [going] unheard".
Google has set up an advisory committee to issue recommendations about where the boundaries of the public interest lie in the requests, made up of seven people including its executive chairman Eric Schmidt and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
In the requests filed on Oct. 3, P.S.E.& G. had sought an increase of 24percentt; New Jersey Natural Gas, 16percentt; and Elizabethtown, from 17.3 to 29.9percentthethe board said.
"We have met with every possible person we can regarding this issue, built the templates, sent in the requests, and we are waiting to see," said Hank M. Bounds, the Mississippi commissioner of higher education, speaking of the needs of Ms. Perry and other scientists.
