Kudos to Gretchen Hamel and Katie Strand at the House Republican Conference for putting together a successful Blog Row event today on Capitol Hill. Like the previous State of the Union blogging event I attended back in January, today's session featured a non-stop flow of congressmen -- so many, in fact, I couldn't keep up.

We had 14 members show up, and between Pat Cleary of ShopFloor.org and myself, I think we managed to cover most of the bases.

I'm providing links to the members whose remarks I've already covered, and below, I've summarized the comments of those who also came, but, for lack of time, I didn't get to write about.

• Roy Blunt and Deb Pryce on Medicare Rx Program
• John Doolittle and Jeb Hensarling on Taxes and Spending
• Katherine Harris on Bill Nelson and Offshore Drilling
• Scott Garrett on Bilingual Ballots and N.J. Senate Race
• Cliff Stearns on Bilingual Ballots, UN Waste and Offshore Drilling

As for the rest of the program, here are some highlights of what the other members said.

• Rep. Pete Hoekstra: The House Intelligence Committee chairman came to talk about the report detailing the 500 WMDs found in Iraq. Hoekstra also announced that he had written to Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte today regarding a press briefing conducted by unnamed "U.S. intelligence officials" whose responses Hoekstra characterized as "inaccurate, incomplete, and occasionally misleading" regarding the WMD report.

• Rep. Ed Royce: The California Republican is gearing up for hearings next week on immigration reform, as my colleague Terry Jeffrey pointed out in a column yesterday. Royce said the first hearing will take place on July 5 in San Diego and the second will be on July 7 in Laredo, Tex. Royce emphasized his belief that the immigration bill passed by the House last December is the correct approach, and he even expressed some optimism that senators were beginning to move in that direction after reading what Sen. Teddy Kennedy's aides had slipped into the 800-page bill.

• Rep. Eric Cantor: The chief deputy whip came with several talking points, beginning with the war in Iraq and the strides the U.S. is making there. He cited the death of Zarqawi, the new Iraqi prime minister and President Bush's recent trip as examples of positive developments. On the domestic front, Cantor said Republicans have shown they're serious about fiscal discipline by passing the Line-Item Veto Act and stopping an estimated $45 billion in Democrat-proposed spending measures. Cantor said the GOP was also making progress in the areas of energy policy, focusing this week on a plan for offshore drilling.

• Rep. Marsha Blackburn: This Tennessee Republican talked about her trip to Iraq, which she just returned from over the weekend. She offered a positive assessment of the war effort there. Blackburn also talked about the immigration debate and earmarks. On that last topic, she said the House has voted to cut 95 federal programs this year, up from 53 in 2005.

• Rep. Randy Neugebauer: Like his fellow Texan Jeb Hensarling, this Republican opened with a similar line about taxes and spending, "Congress doesn't have an income problem, it has a spending problem." Neugebauer also talked about the bilingual ballot requirement of the Voting Rights Act. On the Supreme Court's decision in the Texas redistricting case, he said it was a triumph for states' rights.

• Rep. John Carter: This former Texas judge talked about the sound economy -- which grew at a rate of 5.6% in the first quarter -- and the need for a strong immigration reform bill. Carter said he's met with a 35-member Hispanic council in his district and citizenship -- the key component of the Senate bill -- has never come up once.

• Rep. Todd Akin: In the bellwether state of Missouri, Akin said Sen. Jim Talent (R.-Mo.) stands a good shot at being re-elected despite a tough challenge from Democrat Claire McCaskill. He also spoke about the Pledge Protection Act, legislation he is sponsoring to prohibit federal courts from ruling on the Pledge of Allegiance. He said he was inspired to introduce the measure after the words "under God" came under attack from liberal judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.