Bennett joining trek to Mideast

U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett will join a bipartisan Senate delegation led by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid traveling to the Middle East.

The delegation will review security, economic and political issues in the region.

Bennett, a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, plans to meet with senior foreign officials, U.S. Foreign Service and military personnel on the ground, and Utah soldiers serving in the area.

Also going on the trip will be senators Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.; Ken Salazar, D-Colo.; Richard Durbin, D-Ill.; Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; and Patty Murray, D-Wash.

The delegation will be traveling through the week.