What to Watch: Obama Addresses the AMA

-- President Obama tries to sway the American Medical Association his way, delivering remarks to the 158th annual meeting of the doctors group, held in Chicago. He will also meet with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, above, at the White House after returning from the Windy City.

-- Michelle Obama has a more glamorous assignment: She launches the new White House music series this afternoon, when students will join her for classes led by jazz greats, including Wynton, Branford and Ellis Marsalis. After the classes, the White House and she host a jazz concert featuring Paquito D'Rivera and Tony Madruga.

-- Presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett is honored at a luncheon by the National Partnership for Women and Families. Jarrett also chairs the White House Council on Women and Girls.

-- The health-care lobbying continues, with Americans United for Change releasing a new TV ad arguing that Americans support Obama's plan.

-- The policy jockeying also proceeds: Health Affairs releases its Medicare Payment Advisory Council (MedPAC) report, "Improving Incentives in the Medicare Program," on how payment system incentives could strengthen the program. And George Washington University's Jacobs Institute of Women's Health releases a report on "Women's Health and Healthcare Reform: The Economic Burden of Disease in Women."

-- ImmigrationWorks USA kicks off its two-day Storming the Hill National Summit at the Marriott Washington. Highlights include former representative Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) on "Why Business Needs to be Involved" and Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform on "The Political Prospects for Reform." (The White House, for its part, has now twice delayed a promised immigration summit originally scheduled for June 8.)

-- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases a study showing that NOAA's National Spatial Reference System -- which provides a "national coordinate system that specifies latitude, longitude, height, scale, gravity, and orientation" critical to the functioning of all those GPS devices -- is worth $2.4 billion to the economy annually.

-- And the Justice Department's National Institute of Justice kicks off its three-day 2009 conference at the Marriott Crystal Gateway to discuss crime research and technology. Luncheon and keynote speakers on Monday are Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Clea Koff, a forensic anthropologist and author of "The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo."

-- Garance Franke-Ruta

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