**PLEASE NOTE DEADLINE TO REQUEST CREDENTIALS IS FRIDAY, FEB. 24 @ 5 PM**

WASHINGTON - More than 1,600 active and retired UAW members will gather here from Feb. 26 - March 1 for the union's National Community Action Program (CAP) Legislative Conference.

The conference will take place at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel at 2660 Woodley Road, N.W., in Washington.

UAW delegates from across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico will discuss the union's legislative and political priorities for the coming year, meet with members of Congress to advocate on behalf of working families and prepare for the union's 2012 electoral campaign. 

UAW President Bob King will deliver the keynote address on March 1 at 11 a.m., and UAW members will spend Feb. 29 meeting on Capitol Hill with members of Congress. 

Other program highlights include:

Sunday, Feb. 26

Cecile Richards, president, Planned Parenthood Action Fund

Monday, Feb. 27

Gene Sperling, director, National Economic Council and assistant to the president for Economic Policy

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.

Tuesday, Feb. 28

Labor Leader Panel with CWA President Larry Cohen, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, USW President Leo Gerard and UAW President Bob King

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.

Thursday, March 1

Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.

Father Roy Bourgeois, founder, School of the Americas Watch (SOAW)

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo.

Patrick Gaspard, executive director, Democratic National Committee

Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

Conference sessions are open to the news media, however, media must be credentialed to enter. Request for credentials for any day of the event must be received by 5 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24.