Gossip: In The Know

Sen. Robert Menendez (D- N.J.) sounded a lot like The Washington Post's Dana Milbank during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

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Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the alleged crashers at a White House state dinner last Tuesday, held a lavish wedding in 2003, but according to a guest who attended, the weeklong celebration wasn’t as gracious as it looks on paper.

The last surviving American World War I veteran is scheduled to testify Thursday before a Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee, which is considering a bill to designate the District of Columbia War Memorial as the “National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial.”

There were a lot of headlines about White House crashers at the state dinner last week, but the overlooked story of the high-profile affair was Sen. Bob Casey Jr.’s (D-Pa.) wardrobe malfunction.

The White House is missing a main wall of the building, the administration revealed Wednesday.

Bo Obama, President Barack Obama’s one-year-old Portuguese water dog, has a new (unauthorized) blog, www.goodboybo.com.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) released its take on Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s (D-Calif.) holiday card on Wednesday.

First lady Michelle Obama won top honors from French Elle magazine this week, coming in first in the category of “Politique Chic” in the magazine’s annual Best Dressed List.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) gave Arizona State University wide receiver Kyle Williams a unique pat on the back Monday after his team suffered a tough, season-ending loss to the University of Arizona on Saturday.

It’s official: Chelsea Clinton will marry longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky in the summer of 2010.