In This Issue

• Hoeven to Announce Senate Plans
• GM Tries to Rebuild Clout on Capitol Hill
• Fiorina to Report $3.6 Million in Campaign Receipts

Today in Washington

The House is not in session.

The Senate is not in session.

The President holds separate meetings with senior advisers, labor leaders and top military commanders; hosts a dinner, with first lady Michelle Obama, for top military commanders and their spouses.

In Washington, Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot, formerly with the Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Compliance, Inspections and Examinations, discusses the government's investigation of Bernard Madoff's financial crimes. 5 p.m., Slowinski Courtroom, Catholic University School of Law, 3600 John McCormack Road N.E.

Top Stories

Hoeven to Announce Senate Plans

North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven will announce his 2010 election plans Monday evening in Bismarck, N.D. Republican Party officials expect Hoeven to announce that he is running for the seat of Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, who plans to retire. [Read More]

GM Tries to Rebuild Clout on Capitol Hill

General Motors Corp., transformed by a government-led restructuring and battered by a congressional backlash on behalf of auto dealers, is trying to reassert its influence on Capitol Hill. [Read More]

Fiorina to Report $3.6 Million in Campaign Receipts

Including a personal loan, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has raised nearly $3.6 million since declaring her Senate candidacy in early November, her campaign said, including nearly $1 million in individual contributions. [Read More]

Political Clippings

The Honolulu Advertiser reports that Hawaii Democratic Sens. Daniel K. Akaka and Daniel K. Inouye are "lending the weight of the Democratic establishment" to Colleen Hanabusa's campaign to fill the seat of Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, who is resigning Feb. 28 to concentrate on his run for governor. The race for Abercrombie's 1st District seat also includes former Rep. Ed Case, a Democrat, and Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou, a Republican. Akaka and Inouye joined "several prominent union and political leaders" at the opening of Hanabusa's campaign headquarters on Saturday, according to the newspaper.

According to the Boston Globe, former President Bill Clinton "will visit Boston on Friday to lend his support to U.S. Senate candidate Martha Coakley. The event is a sign not just of Clinton’s continued support for Coakley -- he endorsed her during last month’s primary -- but also that Democrats are taking seriously the race between her and Republican Scott P. Brown." Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., also will attend the rally, the Globe reports. The special election -- to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., is scheduled for Jan. 19.