Glenn Beck's permit for an upcoming rally in D.C. hasn't come through yet, but it probably will.

Reporters have been flooding the National Parks Service with calls about whether the Fox News host's Restoring Honor rally will be allowed to take place.

Odds are that it will.

Beck's permit is pending, but large events like this one routinely take longer to get approved. More than 150,000 people are expected to attend, according to the permit application, which lists the purpose of the rally as a "demonstration to honor veterans."

Bill Line, a National Parks Service spokesman, said there are no concerns about whether the tea-party rally qualifies as a First Amendment activity, which gives it priority over other events.

The parks department is simply negotiating some of the logistics involved in holding such a large event, Line said. The rally is expected to be on the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, where events much larger than this one have been held in the past.

The August 28 rally falls on the 47th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, so several civil-rights groups have also applied for permits to hold events around D.C.

The only one approved so far is from a group of artists who plan to erect a four-foot sculpture on the Mall to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., and protest the Beck rally.

-- Ambreen Ali, Congress.org