Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court visited the Capitol last week to lecture representatives about the Constitution, at the invitation of Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican and Tea Party leader.
His visit was the result of an invitation from Representative José E. Serrano, a Democrat from the South Bronx who had also once invited Fidel Castro to the neighborhood.
Many of the visitors from Congress, which include both Democrats and Republicans, are coming at the invitation of Representative John D. Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who was among those lobbying the hardest for the government to help rescue the automakers.
Mr. Netanyahu — who is coming to speak at the invitation of Representative John Boehner, the House speaker — seems to think that the Republicans' new power means he has carte blanche in Washington.
On Saturday, when the Legislature reached agreement on the details of the income tax surcharge, Mr. Bloomberg left town to attend the Kentucky Derby at the invitation of Representative Harold Rogers.
But Mr. Sharpton said he would not accept an invitation from Representative Charles E. Rangel, a Harlem Democrat, to join a coalition of black Democrats -- including C. Virginia Fields, the Manhattan borough president -- who are to endorse Mr. Ferrer in Harlem this afternoon.
Samantha Garvey the Long Island high school student nominated as a semi-finalist for the prestigious Intel science award while she and her family were homeless--attended the State Of The Union Tuesday night at the invitation of Representative Steve Israel (who's also offered Garvey an internship).
The government said that it had repeatedly invited representatives of the group to visit the Caribbean territory, but that the invitation had been ignored.
Mr. Annan's spokesman, Fred Eckhard, said the secretary general had extended invitations to representatives of the Coalition Provisional Authority in conversations with President Bush and Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser.
