Posted on 05/23/2011 3:53:37 PM PDT by onyx
Monday, May 23, 2011 - 10:00am
While Washington, D.C., is increasingly consumed with bickering between Democrats and Republicans, the U.S.-Israel relationship remains the one issue that transcends the partisan divide. In a display of this bipartisan spirit, more than half of Congress will attend tonight's Gala Banquet, which will fill a room large enough to fit the Washington Monument on its side.
This year, however, for the first time ever, Hall D/E, as massive as it is, cannot fit all delegates and guests for a sit-down dinner. As a result, all student delegates will be seated in the Ballroom Banquet in Ballrooms A, B and C. Each banquet will feature live and simulcast appearances as well as unique programming. The major speakers tonight—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, House Majority Leader John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid—will appear personally in both banquet halls.
Representatives from more than 65 countries—including ambassadors from China, South Africa, Mexico, Turkey and the Netherlands—will be seated at tonight's dinner.
Senators, members of Congress, administration officials, foreign diplomats and other VIPs at the banquets will have their names read during the Roll Call, a lively Policy Conference tradition that has been a crowd favorite for many years. AIPAC National Board members Amy Friedkin and Michael Tuchin will join AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr for the Roll Call.
The Gala Banquet will be the end of a full day of Monday programming. The morning kicks off with an address by Reverend Dr. Tony Crisp. After the morning plenary, delegates will head to lobbying workshops, where they will learn from AIPAC's top experts how to make the case for Israel on Capitol Hill tomorrow.
Do we know for sure that the schedule got changed at the last minute? If so...that is wierd.
I may have to get in bed with the laptop, but will be watching it..hopefully with you guys. I just hate the laptop...i am not very proficient with it and get frustrated not having a mouse and fumbling around on that little finger pad....lol.
Yes, CSPAN-2 is LIVE now...just in time for dirty Hairy Reed.
They called Dingy a “friend of Israel”!! Polls must be showing Obie failed miserably on his Israel speech. The rest of the rats can’t distance themselves fast enough.
“The bott5om line is Harry Reid...savewd Israeli lives”
(However Harry Reid never got around to denouncing Barry’s 67 borders which would have taken Ieraeli lives)
That’s why....Harry reid gets a fanfare?
WTF..I hope these AIPAC people are happy now with their Obozo. Obama is only outdone by Reid as a liar.
I can only take satisfaction in that Reid is so d...n ugly!
Thanks!!!!
Pointing his fingers!
How dare him!
Break ‘em!
WTH is that little gray mouse Reid doing there?
What a putz.
These days i feel like I have lost my mind. Up is down and down is a hole so deep you can’t see up. Frantic alot. Do NoT like what I “see.”
I know...I get that at work! Bunch of liberal “View” lovers...
Next up is Boehner.
Will he cry... or won’t he?
“I stand with Israel always”
Shot of audience looking bored
LOL
Giving a campaign speech for the dem putz running from nevada. Puke.
It was a very touching story (how the two soldiers met).
He just had to pause and take off his glasses to wipe his booboo. I read he got 18 stitches...said he ran into a door?!?
Hurry Bibi!
Eee Gak! It’s Ried on CSPAN2.
That’s a good discription of Reid...Grey Mouse...he is pewwwww-trid!
Now I feel bad : (
Just the idea of Bibi in the same building as Reid ...
(save me some cake!)
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