Massachusetts: Niki Tsongas

Please join us for a live chat with Rep. Niki Tsongas of Massachusetts' 5th congressional district.  Send in your questions and comments using the box at the bottom of the chat window -- we will get to as many of them as we can.

BMG chats with Rep. Niki Tsongas - 11 a.m.

As the RNC gathers for its big meeting, and to elect a chairman (reports suggest Duncan, but don't count out Krazy Katon Dawson!): 

--Dan rightly takes Jeff Jacoby to task for perpetuating the bogus CBO report figures, but I'll do him one better: the House Minority Whip (and 19th Scariest Conservative!) repeating the lie to Marc Ambinder last night as his #1 problem with the stimulus bill: "I think first of all you have to focus spending on actual stimulus. You've got CBO saying that  only 25 percent goes out in the first year."

--Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, rumored to be facing a challenge from the religious right in 2010, surveys the nation's problems and singles out.

A host of high profile elected officials, including Vice President-elect Joe Biden, is slated to attend Harvard University's convocation ceremony Monday during which it will bestow an honorary degree on U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Harvard was originally slated to give Kennedy, a Hyannis Port Democrat, an honorary degree during its graduation ceremonies last June but that was delayed when Kennedy suffered a malignant brain tumor. The university decided to hold a ceremony on Monday solely to honor Kennedy.

Congresswoman Niki Tsongas is scheduled to make four stops in New Hampshire Saturday to help get out the vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, according to the Obama campaign.

Tsongas will start the day in Littleton for a 9:45 a.m. canvass kickoff event. At 12:30 p.m., she'll attend another canvassing event in Plymouth before heading to the coordinated campaign office in Laconia at 1:40 p.m. She'll wrap up at 3:15 at another get out the vote event in Concord.