It's yet another jam-packed day in your Senate campaign, politics junkies. Democrat Joe Sestak is hosting a somewhat awkward pair of fund-raisers with President Barack Obama in Philadelphia today.

Per the White House, the presidential schedule in PA today is as follows: Air Force 1 touches down in Philly at 4:05 p.m., he speaks at a "finance" reception at 5:10 p.m., then at a dinner reception for Sestak at 6:05 p.m. Both those events are at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Then, POTUS hauls in some money for the Democratic National Committee with a 7:20 p.m. speech at the Pyramid Club before heading back to D.C. All these events are pool press coverage and we'll pass along those pool reports when we get them.

Republican Pat Toomey -- the subject of an excellent profile by colleague Jim O'Toole in Sunday's PG, in case you missed it -- will be outside Harrisburg speaking on the evils of the estate tax at 2 p.m. Toomey wants the estate tax -- or "death tax," if you prefer -- permanently repealed and points out Sestak has voted against such a repeal. Toomey also issued a statement welcoming the president to Pennsylvania and said he looks forward to working with Obama on increasing U.S. exports and education reform when -- not if -- Toomey arrives in the Senate. Then he gets into the meat of it:

“Unfortunately, most of the policies President Obama has been pursuing have prevented us from having the kind of economic recovery that we could and should be having.  Bailing out failing companies, massive spending, huge tax increases, a cap-and-trade energy tax, and government-run health care – this agenda is keeping unemployment high, and Joe Sestak is in favor of all of it.  It’s time for a change.  We should end the bailouts, get spending under control, make the 2003 tax cuts permanent, and cut payroll taxes to encourage businesses to hire new workers.  I’m optimistic that we can have a booming recovery, but we need to focus on the kind of policies that will put Pennsylvanians back to work.”

And it wouldn't be a new week without another outside group wading into this race. In this case, it's the AFL-CIO, which is ramping up its political program this week by sending out 2.5 million mailers to union households, targeting 50 Republican candidates -- including Toomey. Aside from being a big national race, this one is personal for AFL-CIO -- the labor federation's president, Richard Trumka, is a Greene County native. The Toomey mailer PDF is below:

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