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Today In Washington

Highlights of today's events in Washington:

Thu. May 15, 2008


• President Bush continues his trip to the Israel and Saudi Arabia, meeting with the Quartet Representative in Jerusalem.

• The Senate convenes today to resume consideration of the conference report to accompany H.R.2419, the Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act.

• The House meets at 10 a.m. to consider H.R.2642, the emergency supplemental bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and pressing domestic needs.

• The full Senate Appropriations Committee meets to mark up the FY08 emergency supplemental bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (106 Dirksen, 2 p.m.)

• Senate Agriculture Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, participates in a news conference on the farm bill. (Senate Radio/TV Gallery, 11 a.m.)

• Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard Burr, R-N.C., attend a news conference on the G.I. bill. (Senate Radio/TV gallery, 2 p.m.)

• Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Carl Levin, D-Mich., Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.; and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. attend a news conference a measure in the farm bill conference report closing the so-called "Enron Loophole," that exempted the trade of energy commodities from federal regulation. (Senate Radio/TV Gallery, 11:45 a.m.)

• Reps. Stephen Buyer, R-Ind., Gresham Barrett, R-S.C., Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., John Shadegg, R-Ariz., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., attend a news conference to introduce the "Main St. USA Energy Independence Act." (Cannon Terrace, 12:30 p.m.)

• Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., Gordon Smith, R-Ore., and Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., attend a news conference to unveil the top six countries on the 2008 priority watch list. (HC-7, 1 p.m.)

• Reps. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Keith Ellison, D-Minn., attend a forum to hear testimony from more than a dozen veterans of the war in Iraq who will share eyewitness accounts of the ongoing military occupation. (2261 Rayburn, 9:30 a.m.)

• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., participates in a weekly news conference. (H-210, 10:45 a.m.)

• Reps. Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Pelosi and Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Cantwell attend the 9th annual District Day 2008, a seminar for civic leaders, social advocates and business owners from the Seattle-Tacoma area. (B-338 and B-339 Rayburn, 8:30 a.m.)

• Details on these and other events are available in today's Daybook.

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