Congressman Dave Reichert is on his way back from Iraq tonight. There are few details available about the trip at this point. Reichert spent two days in Iraq and is scheduled to return to D.C. Monday morning. That will put him in the Capital within hours of when Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassader Ryan Crocker are due to to appear before House Committees to give a progress report on the military surge.

Reichert is already on the record as a strong supporter of letting Petraeus continue with the current strategy. He told me in July:

"When you try to dismantle a plan that has been put in place before it has the opportunity to come to fruition you are politicizing the effort and you make it difficult."

So I wouldn't expect any major, Baird-like change in Reichert's position. But he will have the freshest on-the-scene report for the surge's big day in Congress. Reichert left for Iraq Thursday night and flew overnight. He spent two days in the country. This was his first Iraq visit since 2005.