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What to Watch: Obama Holds Health-Care Roundtable
Ron His Horse Is Thunder will attend a hearing on tribal crime.
(By Will Kincaid -- Associated Press)
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-- President Obama holds a health-care roundtable -- for which he has solicited questions online via YouTube, Facebook and Twitter -- at the Northern Virginia Community College campus in Annandale. The GOP will have live reaction from its own online town hall and a blog at http:/
-- Vice President Biden travels to Seneca High School in Erie, Pa., where he will be joined by Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (D-Pa.) and local officials for an event highlighting broadband infrastructure investments under the Recovery Act. The event is the kickoff of the administration's "Rural Tour," which will send administration officials to rural communities in nine states over the summer to discuss their needs.
-- With the Senate in recess, the Indian Affairs Committee is holding a field hearing at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in Fort Yates, N.D., on "Lessons Learned From Operation Dakota Peacekeeper," a pioneering interagency effort to fight crime on tribal lands. Planning to attend are Ron His Horse Is Thunder, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; Myra Pearson, chairwoman of the Spirit Lake Dakotah Nation; and Richard Marcellais, chairman of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe.
-- The Trust for America's Health releases "F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America," an annual report ranking obesity in the 50 states and the District.
-- Swedish Ambassador Jonas Hafstrom holds a news conference at the House of Sweden in Georgetown at 5 p.m. to discuss Sweden's priorities and plans as it assumes the presidency of the European Union.
-- Garance Franke-Ruta federalcity@washpost.com
