The Congressional Black Caucus on Friday recalled a press release with the email subject line "CBC to Hose EPA Administrator in South Carolina next week."

So does Administrator Lisa Jackson have to worry about being doused with water during her two-day trip? Thankfully, the answer is no.

Press Secretary Jioni Palmer sent out the advisory at 3 p.m., clearly unaware of the typo in the subject line.

But recipients of the email were quick to catch it, and less than 10 minutes later, Palmer sent out another note:

Subject: Recall: ADVISORY: CBC to Hose EPA Administrator in South Carolina Next Week

Palmer, Jioni would like to recall the message, "ADVISORY: CBC to Hose EPA Administrator in South Carolina Next Week".

The email subject was meant to read "CBC to Host EPA Administrator in South Carolina Next Week".

Jackson will visit four cities in South Carolina on April 18 and 19 to highlight the importance of environmental issues on underserved communities. No garden hoses are expected.

Washington, D.C.'s sometimes troubled public transit system is on the agenda for a Wednesday hearing in Congress.

The full House Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing on Wednesday into the metro system's "safety, service, and stability."

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has been waiting for a disbursement of federal funds upon which it relies to fund its operations, along with funds from the states of Virginia and Maryland, into which the metro system extends.

The system has been plagued by breakdowns and budget gaps, and officials instituted a modest fare increase for buses and trains earlier this year.

The system suffered one of its deadliest accidents in northeast Washington last June, when two trains collided, killing nine and injuring many more.

WMATA General Manager John Catoe resigned earlier this month.

Sen. Barbara Boxer's (D-Calif.) Monday night fundraiser with President Barack Obama has sold out, but her campaign is still offering people a chance to attend.

On the Boxer campaign website, Finance Director Amalia Klien writes on the blog that the campaign has reserved four pairs of tickets and the winners will chosen in an online contest. Contestants have until Sunday night to enter.

Donors had to pay $17,600 a head for the event at  Los Angeles's Natural History Museum, which is a joint fundraising event between Boxer and the Democratic National Committee. Obama will also attend a reception at the California Science Center on Monday, where tickets range from $100 to $2,500.

And, it being a Hollywood fundraiser featuring a popular Democratic president, expect a strong celebrity presence. Singer India.Arie will be performing, according to the blog Wilshire and Washington.

Boxer's campaign announced earlier this week it raised $2.4 million in the first quarter of 2010.

The senator, who faces a tough reelection campaign, will address party faithful at the California Democratic Convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Saturday.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will address the group Saturday, as will state Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is running for governor. The lunch speaker is Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and the dinner speaker is AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka. The full convention schedule is available here.

A Capitol Hill kickball game was nearly cancelled Thursday night because of the presence of thousands of Tea Party protesters on the National Mall.

The protesters were staging an anti-tax day rally, but the kickball players, many of who are Capitol Hill staffers, weren't prepared for what they found when they arrived for their match.

In emails forwarded to ITK, kickballers expressed concern that "some kind of Jesus rally" was taking up their allotted field. "I'm lost in a sea of crazy," wrote one team member, "but I don't see [their jersey color] anywhere!"

Tea Partiers had been given permission by Park Police to stage a rally, but there appears to have been no coordination with the teams who use the National Mall for intramural sports.

"The tea party took over our field, where are we playing?!" wrote another athlete.

Luckily the kickballers were able to find some space further down on the Mall and eventually play, but not before the game had been postponed by nearly an hour.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) sought to cool passions over the Democratic banking reform bill on Thursday by making an unusual suggestion of his colleagues: Act your age.

Corker, a member of the Banking Committee, has been negotiating with committee chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on the bill and said an agreement remains possible even after senior GOP leaders ripped the bill earlier this week.

The Tennessee senator called for cooler heads.

"If we just get serious as adults for the next 10 days or so — a week — I think we could finish," Corker said on the Senate floor.

"I really believe that. And I just would ask all my colleagues, and I ask this respectfully of my colleague from Connecticut... I still relish the fact that we came close and I think we can get back there. I really do. I don't think anybody's trying to sabotage this. We may have a few folks who don't want this because they don't like laws. I'm making that up slightly over the top myself, but I think most people really want a good bill."

Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor was spotted Thursday carrying a buffet tray of lunch through the Dirksen Senate Office Building's bustling cafeteria. 

It was unclear who Sotomayor was planning to have lunch with, but whoever it was, they didn't stick around the cafeteria tables.

Still, it's not every day a Justice of the Supreme Court makes his or her way through the buffet lines in Dirksen. Typically, when political VIPs have lunch in the Capitol compound, it's in one of the two Members-Only dining rooms. But not Sotomayor. 

And while it was a surprise to see the justice on Capitol Hill, the Senate and the Supreme Court are set to have a lot more contact this spring and summer, as the confirmation of a replacement for retiring Justice John Paul Stevens takes center stage.


H/T: Walter Alarkon

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer will be a special guest at Capitol File's party after the White House Correspondents Association dinner.

Blitzer tweeted Thursday: "Chef Bobby Flay and I are special guests at Capitol File May 1 WHCA Afterparty. Thanks to my old friend @Jason Binn." Binn is the owner of the magazine.

Binn tweeted back to Blitzer: "Can't wait!"

The after parties of the May 1 dinner cap off a weekend affectionately known as "Washington's Prom."

Capitol File isn't the only post-party in the mix. Bloomberg and Vanity Fair will host their annual soiree (known as one of the toughest tickets in Washington) and MSNBC has decided to throw an after-party at the Mellon auditorium.

The Capitol File party is presented by Bing and will be held at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel. Guests including John Cusack, Arianna Huffington, Bill Maher, Jeremy Renner and Twitter CEO & Founder, Evan Williams will hit the dance floor to the beats of DJ Cassidy who spun for President Barack Obama's Inauguration party.

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) is a big fan of one of Memphis, Tennessee's most popular exports: Food Network superstar chefs Gina and Pat Neely.

The Neely's cooking show, "Down Home with the Neelys" appears every day on the cable channel's "In the Kitchen" cooking lineup: Gina and Pat Neely (pictured here) are the owners of a chain of Neely's Bar-B-Que restaurants, so their recipes often revolve around an outdoor barbecue grill.

Cohen told ITK about his appreciation for the couple at Wednesday's March of Dimes Gourmet Gala, where he prepared and served a Neely original recipe: Spanish grilled shrimp.

"The Neelys are just great," Cohen said, "They make the best tasting food in Memphis, so I though I'd share one of their recipes tonight."

The dish which consists of shrimp and rice, is served in phylo shells, which makes it especially well-suited for serving at a party.

Here's the recipe: The Neely's Spanish grilled shrimp, courtesy of Rep. Steve Cohen.

Rice:

1 clove garlic, minced
1 small shallot, diced
1/4 cup chopped green pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon adobo sauce
1 teaspoon tomato paste
1/2 cup long-grain rice
1/4 cup white wine
3/4 cup chicken broth
Pinch saffron
1/4 cup defrosted peas, cooked

Shrimp Marinade:

2 cloves garlic, smashed
3 chipotle peppers
1 lime, juiced
1 cup olive oil
Cilantro leaves, to taste
1 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
30 premade phyllo shells
Chives, sliced for garnish

Chipotle Dipping Sauce:

1 cup mayonnaise
3 tablespoons honey
1/2 lemon, juiced
1 tablespoon Adobo sauce
Directions

DIRECTIONS

For the rice:

In a large saucepan, sweat garlic, shallot and pepper in oil until softened. Add adobo sauce, tomato paste, rice, wine and broth, give a quick stir. Add saffron. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat to low. Cook 15 to 20 minutes, until rice is cooked. Fold in peas.

For the Shrimp Marinade:

Blend in garlic, chipotle peppers, the lime juice, olive oil and cilantro in a food processor or blender. Pour over shrimp. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and marinate for 20 minutes.

Preheat grill over a medium-high.

Take shrimp out of marinade and cook on grill for about 1 to 1 1/2 minutes or until done. Fill phyllo shells with rice mixture, top with grilled shrimp. Garnish with chives.

For the Dipping Sauce:

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl. Mix thoroughly.

North Carolina Senate candidate Cal Cunningham seemed to be channeling Jimmy Buffett at a Democratic forum in Raleigh Wednesday night. 

When the topic of offshore oil drilling came up, Cunningham said: "If you go swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, you come out covered in oil."

One of Buffett's most famous lines is, "Nibblin' on sponge cake, watchin' the sun bake, all of those tourists covered with oil."

Attorney Ken Lewis (D), one of Cunningham's main rivals, was quick to pounce. His campaign promptly called for Cunningham to "apologize" to the governors of Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas for his "'covered in oil' slur."

"I think Cal has been listening to too many Jimmy Buffet [sic] songs: That's not what he meant by 'all of those tourists covered in oil,'" said Bruce Clark, Lewis's campaign manager. 

A Cunningham spokeswoman said later that he was referring to the swimming near Galveston, Texas.