**President Obama
*On the same day that Obama appeared at CIA headquarters and addressed the release of the OLC memos, former VP Dick Cheney tells Fox News that he wants the administration to release additional documents showing what harsh interrogations yielded. "They didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort," Cheney said. The former VP "said he thinks it's perfectly appropriate for those with a different point of view to be able to express it -- and give the American people the ability to evaluate." "It's important to not personally attack the new president -- I've never done that," said Cheney.

*Obama will attend a DSCC/DCCC fundraiser in June, CNN reports. This counters what was to have been Sarah Palin's appearance at the NRCC/NRSC fundraiser now being headlined by Newt Gingrich.

*AP has highlights the $5.7 billion service bill being signed today. "The AmeriCorps program started by President Bill Clinton will triple in size over the next eight years, and tens of thousands of other Americans will soon see new opportunities to give back to their communities. ... Bolstering voluntary public service programs has been a priority of Obama, who credits his work as a community organizer in his early 20s for giving him direction in life."

*The Senate voted to invoke cloture, ending debate on the nomination of Christopher Hill as ambassador to Iraq. Enough Republicans sided with Democrats, over the objection of Sen. Sam Brownback." "It is important to get our next ambassador in place as quickly as possible,'' said Senator Richard Lugar. 'We need an ambassador in Iraq," said Senator Saxby Chambliss.

*Politico reports that Obama's call to cut $100 million from administration budgets "was met on Monday with mockery by congressional Republicans, who cast the cuts as laughably small within the multitrillion-dollar budget the president has proposed. The White House shot back that Republicans had no room to talk about fiscal prudence, pointing out that it was their party that left Obama with yawning deficits. In other words: game on."

*Murray Waas reports for The Atlantic that the U.S. Attorneys caught in the wave of firings in late 2006 have held two annual reunions, and that one -- Dan Bogden -- is being considered for reinstatement by the Obama administration. "A Justice Department official told me that the idea of hiring Bogden back is in fact a real possibility, and said that the White House counsel's office has been quietly vetting his background in anticipation of his possible reappointment."

*USA Today reports that the special inspector general for the TARP program has launched "almost 20" criminal investigations into the program.

*Not only did the Chicago White Sox visit the White House, but Tiger Woods did, too, ABC reports.

**Congress
*AP: "The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday begins four days of hearings on a draft bill that will limit for the first time the gases blamed for global warming and could revolutionize the way the country produces and uses energy."

*CQ reports that the energy bill being considered by the House Energy committee "not only would try to curb global warming but also would create a federal program on adapting to climate changes that may be inevitable. ... The centerpiece of the bill would mandate an 83 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and require greater use of renewable-energy sources."

*CQ reported Sunday night on California Democrat Jane Harman "was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington."

"In return, the caller promised her that a wealthy California donor -- the media mogul Haim Saban -- would threaten to withhold campaign contributions to Representative Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who was expected to become House speaker after the 2006 election, if she did not select Ms. Harman for the intelligence post," NY Times reports.

*The Hill surveyed Senators, asking who in the opposite party they most enjoyed working with. "The answers reveal a Senate with surprising alliances, close friendships and some personal resentments. After Kennedy, the most bipartisan Democrats are Sens. Tom Carper (Del.), Chris Dodd (Conn.), Evan Bayh (Ind.) and Tom Harkin (Iowa). Following Collins on the GOP side are Sens. Olympia Snowe (Maine), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Richard Lugar (Ind.) and John McCain (Ariz.)."

*According to a CNN poll, 49 percent of Americans say the country is better off with the Democrats controlling Congress. "That's down 7 points from January, but it's 15 points higher than the 34 percent who say the nation would be better with the Republicans running Capitol Hill."

**Campaign Stuff
*The DSCC edged the NRSC in first quarter fundraising, the Hotline notes.

*The DNC sent an e-mail appeal to help retire Hillary Clinton's FEC debt.

*NY GOV: Rudy Giuliani, at the Lincoln-Regan Day Dinner in Albany, "told reporters social issues are not the path to success for New York Republicans." Giuliani: "The Republican Party does best when it organizes around economic issues and issues of national security. We end up getting back to being a majority party that way. And on these social issues, I really respect [Dean Skelos] for leaving that to the conscience of the people that are voting. Our party should be built around fiscal confidence, fiscal integrity." Giuliani, on a movement against the gay marriage proposal. "That will emerge because there are people who feel very strongly as a matter of conscience against this."

*Politico's Kraushaar takes a look at the Dem frontrunners for the CA-32 special election.