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Newsmakers with Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

This week on Newsmakers, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, talks about congressional strategy for dealing with the...

Newsmakers with Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX)

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) talks about defense issues, including this past week's Defense Department report on sexual assaults on women, defense spending and the FY2014 DOD...

Newsmakers with Representative Jeff Miller

Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, talks about key issues facing veterans such as jobs, delays in veterans benefits claims, and...

Newsmakers with Representative Luis Gutierrez

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) discusses House legislation on immigration. A group of eight House members, including our guest has been working on developing an immigration...

Newsmakers with Representative Buck McKeon

Representative Buck McKeon, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, talks about criticism of President Obama's proposed defense budget issued this week.

Newsmakers with Larry Pratt

As Congress wrestles to find a compromise on gun legislation concerning universal background checks and gun trafficking, the director of Gun Owners of America describes...

Newsmakers with Senator Tom Coburn

Sen. Tom Coburn talks about the budget, the CR, his longtime thinking about the fiscal cliff, as well as the debate over gun legislation. He has proposed...

Newsmakers with Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA)

Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA), the new chairman of the Republican Study Committee, discusses the congressional debate over spending and taxes and other topics, including energy...

Newsmakers with Representative Sander Levin

Representative Sander Levin (D-MI), the ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee, talks about tax reform, the future of Social Security and Medicare,...

Newsmakers with Representative Bob Goodlatte

Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), House Judiciary Committee Chairman, talks about immigration and gun control, two issues his committee is likely to address in 2013.

Newsmakers with Representative Harold Rogers

Representative Harold Rogers (R-KY), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, talks about his continuing resolution to fund the federal government.

Deficit Reduction and the Federal Budget

House Budget Committee leaders Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Tom Price (R-GA) talk about ways Republicans and Democrats could work together on debt reduction and...