Today at TRNS

Managing editor Victoria Jones will be covering the White House briefing with Robert Gibbs.

Legal Affairs Correspondent Jay Goodman Tamboli will be covering the president’s meeting with the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board and other events at the White House.

United Nations Correspondent Tala Dowlatshahi will interview UN Justice on the situation in Sri Lanka.

The Washington D.C. Bureau will be covering the following events:
-A full committee hearing on “Oil and the Economy: The Impact of Rising Global Demand on the U.S. Recovery”
-A news conference with Rep. Allyson Schwartz to announce a major bill to improve healthcare
-A full committee hearing on “Oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program”: Treasury Secretary Geithner testifies
-A Defense subcommittee hearing on the Defense Department: Defense Secretary Robert Gates will be a witness
-The Senate Democratic Policy committee hearing “to examine how millions of dollars in bonuses were paid to contractor to contractor KBR for shoddy electrical work in Iraq and how to reform the Pentagon’s contractor compensation system.”
-An announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for a new initiative to fight medicare waste, fraud and abuse
-A news conference to discuss healthcare reform and the “Patients’ Choice Act of 2009″
-A Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the “Foreign Policy Priorities in the President’s FY2010 International Affairs Budget” with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifying