Who Is At The White House
Here is a list of the bipartisan group of congressional party and committee leaders who trekked down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House this afternoon for a briefing with President Obama and Vice President Biden on Afghanistan and Pakistan:
US Senate
• Senator Harry Reid, Majority Leader, D-NV
• Senator Dick Durbin, Majority Whip, D-IL
• Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican Leader, R-KY
• Senator Jon Kyl, Republican Whip, R-AZ
• Senator Carl Levin, Armed Services Chairman, D-MI
• Senator John McCain, Armed Services Ranking Member, R-AZ
• Senator Daniel Inouye, Appropriations Chairman and Defense Subcommittee Chairman, D-HI
• Senator Thad Cochran, Appropriations Ranking Member and Defense Subcommittee Ranking, R-MS
• Senator John Kerry, Foreign Affairs Chairman, D-MA
• Senator Richard Lugar, Foreign Affairs Ranking Member, R-IN
• Senator Patrick Leahy, Foreign Operations Appropriations Chairman, D-VT
• Senator Judd Gregg, Foreign Operations Appropriations Ranking Member, R-NH
• Senator Dianne Feinstein, Intelligence Committee Chair, D-CA
• Senator Kit Bond, Intelligence Committee Ranking Member, R-MO
US House
• Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA
• Representative Steny Hoyer, Majority Leader, D-MD
• Representative John Boehner, Republican Leader, R-OH
• Representative James Clyburn, Majority Whip, D-SC
• Representative Eric Cantor, Republican Whip, R-VA
• Representative Ike Skelton, Armed Services Chairman, D-MO
• Representative Howard McKeon, Armed Services Ranking Member, R-CA
• Representative Howard Berman, Foreign Affairs Chairman, D-CA
• Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Foreign Affairs Ranking Member, R-FL
• Representative David Obey, Appropriations Chairman, D-WI
• Representative Jerry Lewis, Appropriations Ranking Member, R-CA
• Representative Nita Lowey, Foreign Operations Appropriations Chairman, D-NY
• Representative Kay Granger, Foreign Operations Appropriations Ranking Member, R-TX
• Representative John Murtha, Appropriations, Defense Subcommittee Chairman, D-PA
• Representative Bill Young, Appropriations, Defense Subcommittee Ranking Member, R-FL
• Representative Silvestre Reyes, Intelligence Committee Chairman, D-TX
• Representative Peter Hoekstra, Intelligence Committee Ranking Member, R-MI