MR. DUFFY: Let me update you on the President's day. This morning he taped his radio address on the outlook for the year ahead, which includes focusing on our country's top two priorities, which are winning the war on terror and keeping the American economy growing strong and creating more and more jobs.

He then had his normal briefings, which included a briefing on both the wildfire situation in the Southwest, as well as the flooding and rainfall in the Pacific Northwest. As you know, the Agriculture Department issued a press release two days ago that outlined some of the federal government resources that are being applied in the wildfire situation.

He then did some brush clearing and just completed a bike ride before I came out. This afternoon he's scheduled to sign several pieces of legislation which several of you have been inquiring about, including the Patriot Act extension, the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, which does include the provision on the citizenship of Olympic skaters, and the Defense emergency supplemental appropriations bill, which among other things, includes additional aid for the Gulf Coast, as well as the government's preparation for pandemic flu.

Our aim is to have a photo release of him signing the Labor-HHS appropriations bill for your use, should you decide to use it. There will be some other paper coming out today, including the President's New Year's Day message, which we'll release right after the gaggle. And we'll have our normal announcements on all the bill signings that he's done, but there's going to be some paperwork -- we'll try to get it out as soon as we can. I think he'll start signing bills here within the hour. I don't know exactly, but that's kind of the target. So we'll try to get that information out to you as soon as we can.

The week ahead we'll do at the end. I think that's what I have.

Toby.

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