Friday, June 02, 2006
DAYAHEAD/Events making news today and through the weekend ...
  • President Bush meets with the Senior Minister of Singapore at 10:05 a.m. ET and at 10:40 a.m. ET he takes photos with the American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit. Bush then participates in the 11 a.m. ET swearing-in-ceremony of former Rep. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) to be the new OMB director. Portman is moving over from his post as the U.S. Trade Representative. Then the President gets to talk football when the Super Bowl Champions Pittsburgh Steelers stop by at 1:45 p.m. ET. Press gaggle was scheduled to begin at 9:15 a.m. ET and at 12:15 p.m. ET White House Press Secretary Tony Snow holds a briefing.

  • House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) is on a fact finding mission to Iraq and Qatar. The specific timing of events was not released, but his office did say Hastert would meet with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Jawad al Maliki, Speaker Mahoud al Mashhadani and the Cabinet ministers. Also on the schedule is a meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. military commanders and U.S. troops from Illinois. Joining him on the trip will be Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Illinois), Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Florida) and Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland).

  • The House and Senate are in recess. The House returns on June 6 at 2 p.m. and the Senate returns on June 5 at 2 p.m. Hearings can be scheduled during this time period.

  • First Lady Laura Bush was scheduled to begin speaking at 9 a.m. ET at the U.N. General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York.

  • Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman visits the University of Connecticut at 10 a.m. ET to participate in a roundtable with vulnerable Rep. Rob Simmons (R-Connecticut) and business leaders to talk about Bush's Advanced Energy Initiatives, gas prices, hydrogen fuel cells and job growth. As CNN's Steve Redisch points out this is one of some 38 events listed on the White House Economic Team's schedule today as the jobs report was released this morning.

  • Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) heads to the Garden State today to campaign on behalf of Rep. Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey). Menendez is battling for his own six year term to the seat he was appointed to earlier this year. Menendez and Obama meet with African American ministers at 3 p.m. ET in Newark's Tabernacle Baptist Church. The senators then attend a "Standing up for New Jersey" rally at East Orange Campus High School at 4:30 p.m. ET. Obama then attends a fundraiser in a private home to benefit Menendez's campaign.

  • Sen. Joe Biden (D-Delaware), who acknowledges interest in seeking the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, tonight keynotes the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce Dinner in Scranton, Ohio. On Saturday, Biden and Obama speak at an Ohio Democratic Party dinner fundraiser.

  • Sen. George Allen (R-Virginia), a potential 2008 presidential candidate, and former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie attend the Republican Party of Virginia's 2006 Commonwealth Gala Saturday night at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond.

  • Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner (D) are scheduled to appear at the New Hampshire Democratic Party's Convention at St. Anselm College in Goffstown on Saturday. Feingold headlines the breakfast that begins at 8:30 a.m. ET and Warner gives the lunchtime address at noon. Feingold then heads to neighboring Maine to deliver the keynote address to that state's Democratic Convention at 4 p.m. ET.
  • Posted By Mark Preston, CNN Political Unit: 6/02/2006 10:46:00 AM ET | Permalink
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