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SENATE

In session. Contact: Republican Cloakroom, 202/224-8601 or Democratic Cloak room, 202/224-8541.

SENATE COMMITTEES

9:30 a.m. — Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing on Iraq after the surge. Retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey testifies. Location: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-4651.

9:30 a.m. — Judiciary Committee holds an oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security, focusing on immigration issues and implementations of the REAL ID Act. Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-7703.

10 a.m. — Environment and Public Works Committee holds an oversight hearing on listing decision for the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne testifies. Contact: 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-8832.

11 a.m. — Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee holds a hearing on nuclear terrorism and an assessment of the threat. Location: 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Contact: 202/224-2627.

HOUSE

In session. Contact: Republican Cloakroom, 202/225-2020, or Democratic Cloakroom, 202/225-1600.

HOUSE COMMITTEES

10 a.m. — Appropriations Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and related agencies subcommittee holds a hearing on fiscal 2009 appropriations for highway and transit programs. Location: 2358A Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-2771.

10 a.m. — Science and Technology research and science education subcommittee holds a hearing on international science and technology cooperation. Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building.

10 a.m. — Financial Services domestic and international monetary policy, trade and technology subcommittee holds a hearing on proposed regulations to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Location: 2128 Rayburn House Office Building. Contact: 202/225-4247.

2 p.m. — Foreign Affairs Middle East and South Asia subcommittee holds a hearing on Afghanistan. Location: 210 Cannon House Office Building.

GENERAL AGENDA

Forum — all day — The Consumer Electronics Association holds its Washington forum.

Highlights — 10 a.m. — Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez.

1:30 p.m. — News conference to announce a trade-economic study. Contact: 202/679-2394.

Location: J.W. Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 202/701-7510.

Clothing Drive — all day — FedEx Special Delivery and Dress for Success host the third annual Capitol Hill Suit Drive. Location: Capitol South Metro Station, corner of First and D streets Southeast. Contact: 202/835-9439 (office); 843/729-9382 (cell).

National party conventions — 10 a.m. — Political and media leaders at American University host a discussion on the 2008 national party conventions. James A. Thurber, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University’s School of Public Affairs; Mike Berman, president of the Duberstein Group; Anthony Corrado, Brookings Institution fellow; Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist; and Ron Elving, National Public Radio Washington editor, participate. Location: Mary Graydon Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Rooms 5 and 6. Contact: 202/885-5935.

’Super surrogates’ — 8 a.m. — National Journal and MSNBC sponsor a panel discussion, “Super Surrogates,” with Sens. Evan Bayh, Richard J. Durbin and Lindsey Graham, and Ron Brownstein of Atlantic Media Co., Linda Douglass of National Journal, and Chuck Todd of NBC. Location: Columbus Club, Union Station. Contact: 202/266-7329.

Internet network — 9 a.m. — The American Enterprise Institute holds a discussion on the economic perspective of Internet network management. Location: AEI, 1150 17th St. NW, 12th floor. Contact: 202/862-4871.

Congo — 9:30 a.m. — The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars holds a discussion on gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with Patricia Morris of Women for Women International and Denis Mukwege of Panzi Hospital, Bukavu. Location: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Moynihan Boardroom.

’Congressional Pig Book’ — 9:30 a.m. — Citizens Against Government Waste holds a news briefing to release the “2008 Congressional Pig Book,” an annual report on pork-barrel spending in the federal budget, with members of Congress. Location: National Press Club, First Amendment Lounge. Contact: 202/467-5334.

Doctors and Medicare — 10 a.m. — AMA physicians will make a “House Call on Congress” to urge immediate action to preserve seniors access to health care by stopping Medicare physician-payment cuts. Location: Upper Senate Park, Constitution Avenue between Delaware and New Jersey avenues and adjacent to the Russell Senate Office Building. Rain location: Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1000 H St. NW. Contact: 202/789-7419.

Broadband awareness — 10:30 a.m. — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Connected Nation Inc. launch a national broadband awareness campaign. Location: 1615 H St. NW. Contact: 202/463-5682

Black economists — 11 a.m. — Two black economists, Steven Pitts and William Spriggs, mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King by releasing a policy brief, challenging the nation to take up King’s vision of economic justice through a five-point action plan. Location: SEIU, 1800 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/833-9771.

U.S. economy noon — The New America Foundation holds a discussion about the U.S. economic picture, with Leo Hindery of InterMedia Partners. Location: NAF, 1630 Connecticut Ave. NW, seventh floor.

Failing African governments — noon — The Cato Institute hosts a policy forum, “Let Failing African Governments Collapse: A Radical Solution to Underdevelopment.” Edward N. Luttwak, senior associate of the Center for International and Strategic Studies; George Ayittey, professor of economics at American University; and Mauro De Lorenzo, resident fellow at American Enterprise Institute, participate. Marian Tupy, policy analyst at the Cato Institute, will moderate. Location: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact: 202/789-5200.

Iraq war — noon — The Center for American Progress hosts a presentation, “A View from the Ground in Iraq.” Panelists include Michael Ware, CNN’s correspondent in Baghdad; journalist Nir Rosen, Center on Law and Security fellow at New York University; and moderator Brian Katulis, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Location: CAP, 1333 H St. NW., 10th floor. Contact: 202/481-8182.

Nigerian elections — 12:30 p.m. — The School of Advanced International Studies holds a discussion on the Nigerian elections, with Okechukwu Nwanguma of the Civil Liberties Organization in Lagos, Nigeria. Location: 171 Massachusetts Ave. NW., Room 736. Contact: 202/663-5626.

Murdoch talk — 1:45 p.m. — News Corp. Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch speaks about the changing news media landscape. Location: Georgetown University, Gaston Hall, third floor, Healy Hall. Contact: 202/687-8610.

Nanotechnology — 5:30 p.m. — The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and National Science Foundation host the Washington premiere event for the television series “Nanotechnology: The Power of Small.” Remarks by Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat. Location: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, sixth floor. Contact: 202/691-4321.

Iraq war film — 7 p.m. — The Center for American Progress holds a screening for the “Body of War” documentary about a 25-year-old service member paralyzed from a bullet to his spine. Contact: 202/682-1611.

• Compiled by the Associated Press and The Washington Times