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The text of the conference report of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has been posted on the Rules Committee website:

Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent the following letter today to President Obama inviting him to address a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Pelosi and Reid met Tuesday with the President at the White House to personally extend this invitation, which the President accepted.

The Appropriations Committee and the Ways and Means Committee have released detailed summaries of the appropriations and tax provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The urgency is clear. The choice is clear. The House will vote this week on a plan to create and save 3.5 million American jobs, jumpstart our economy, and transform it for success in the 21st century.

Today, the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is holding a hearing examining the recent salmonella outbreak associated with peanut products manufactured by the Peanut Corporation of America.

The House Financial Services Committee is holding a hearing this morning on TARP accountability and the use of federal assistance by the first TARP recipients.

Today, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing entitled, "An Examination of the Extraordinary Efforts by the Federal Reserve Bank to Provide Liquidity in the Current Financial Crisis" with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S.