WHAT TO WATCH

WHAT TO WATCH

Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's senior master for executive compensation, will describe his work setting the pay for 175 top executives.
Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's senior master for executive compensation, will describe his work setting the pay for 175 top executives. (Kevin Wolf/associated Press)
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

-- President Obama has a busy day of travel. He will start his day in Miami, after a fundraiser there Monday night. In the late morning, he will head to central Florida, to tour the country's largest solar power plant on its official opening day. Operated by Florida Power & Light, the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia consists of more than 90,000 solar panels.

In the afternoon, Obama will return to Washington before journeying to Norfolk to campaign for Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds.

-- Vice President Biden will visit a closed General Motors plant in Wilmington, Del., to announce that the plant will be reopened to build hybrid electric cars. [Story, A14.]

-- At 9 a.m., Kenneth Feinberg, the senior master for executive compensation in the Troubled Assets Relief Program, will describe his work setting the pay for 175 top executives at seven of the nation's largest companies. The forum at Georgetown University Law School will be followed by a panel discussion.

-- Chevron's incoming chief executive, John S. Watson, will address energy security and the global economy at noon as part of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's National Chamber Foundation leadership series.

-- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee holds a hearing on the "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" with Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and others.

-- Garance Franke-Ruta federalcity@washpost.com



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