Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton, and other members of Congress will travel to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany this weekend to pay tribute to troops who participated in the Iraqi war.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., will lead the delegation on the six-day trip, which will include visits to Great Britain and to an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean.
Dicks, the senior Democrat on the Defense appropriations subcommittee, is the only Democrat chosen for the trip, which is scheduled to begin Sunday night. Seven House Republicans, including Hastert, are going.