Federal City Digest: A White House Town Hall on Health Care

-- President Obama will take part in a White House town hall meeting on health care that will be televised in prime time on ABC, our colleague Michael A. Fletcher reports. "Questions for the President: Prescription for America" will be moderated by ABC's Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson and is scheduled to be taped in the White House East Room today before being broadcast tonight at 10.

-- Vice President Biden, left, addresses the Communications Workers of America convention at the Washington Hilton.

-- The 12-member Federal Open Market Committee, which helps set U.S. monetary policy, concludes one of its eight annually scheduled meetings. Market watchers are not expecting any major actions but will be watching closely for any moves targeted at interest rates or inflation.

-- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius goes before the House Energy and Commerce Committee for a discussion of the health-care reform proposal drafted by three House committees. A subcommittee picks up the thread in the afternoon with a panel of witnesses on the same.

-- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee asks whether Iran is at a crossroads, at an informal informational roundtable with representatives of a number of Washington think tanks.

-- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a 2:30 p.m. hearing on Capricia Marshall's nomination to be chief of protocol at the State Department. Marshall, recently in the news on account of late tax filings (she was entitled to a hefty refund, as it turned out) will appear.

-- Garance Franke-Ruta federalcity@washpost.com