Barbara Lee Presiding Over House Session Tomorrow & Thursday
MEDIA ADVISORY
For Immediate Release: January 14, 2008
Contact: Cleve Mesidor, (202) 225-2661, (202) 225-8390 cell
(Washington, DC) – Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-9) will be the presiding officer during the opening week of the 2nd session of 110th Congress. She will preside tomorrow, January 15 at 6:30pm EST and on Thursday, January 17 at 2pm EST.
Media who want to run video or sound can pull the live feed from CSPAN or request video from Cleve Mesidor at cleve.mesidor@mail.house.gov.
Schedule:
Tomorrow, January 15
6:30-9:30pm EST (3:30pm-6:30 PST)
Thursday, January 17
2pm-4pm EST (11am-1pm PST)
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Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-9) sits on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, where she serves on the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Subcommittee, the State Foreign Operations Subcommittee and the Legislative Branch Subcommittee. She is Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus; a Senior Democratic Whip; co-founder of the Out of Iraq Caucus and the Out of Poverty Caucus, and; First Vice-Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), where she serves as Chair of the CBC Task Force on Global HIV/AIDS and Co-Chair of the CBC Haiti Task Force.