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Chief Pentagon Correspondent Meredith MacKenzie will attend a press briefing at the Pentagon. White House Correspondent Lovisa Frost will cover a White House gaggle and briefing.

The Washington Bureau will cover the House Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee hearing on deploying the strategic oil reserve, the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on an extended UN mandate for Iraq, and the House Armed Services Committee hearings on progress in Iraq and "Don't Ask Don't Tell." The Bureau will also attend the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee hearing on existing federal programs reducing gasoline demand and the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on waste, fraud, and abuse in Defense Department Contracts.

Staff will also go to a ceremony celebrating the 60th anniversary of President Truman's executive order to integrate the U.S. Armed Forces, a program calling for action to prevent cancer and increase survivorship with Lance Armstrong, and a pen-and-pad with Charles Schumer (D-NY) on the 2008 Congressional elections.