1.   Bass and Sununu could not accept their awards personally because they were at a congressional retreat where they were trying to devise an issue agenda for their party.

2.   A brief on the congressional retreat being organized by Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Peoria, with Democratic Rep. Dave Skaggs of Colorado.

3.   Floridians going on the Congressional retreat to Hershey, Pa., offered generally sunny assessments about the three-day weekend.

4.   Members of the House are attending their third bipartisan congressional retreat this weekend at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.

5.   Only once was the congressional retreat beneath the Greenbrier Hotel put on alert and readied for possible occupancy.

6.   The losses posed a fashion problem for Pease a week later when he embarked for the bipartisan Congressional retreat in Hershey, Pa.

7.   This was obvious at the Democratic congressional retreat he attended last weekend.

8.   Inslee said he raised the issued with Bush when the president attended a Democratic congressional retreat weeks ago and was rebuffed.

9.   To that end, he has extended tender considerations to lawmakers and, in a striking outreach early on, went to Democratic congressional retreats.