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This week on Newsmakers, our guest is Representative-Elect Luke Messer (R-IN). Representative-Elect Messer discusses the 113th Congress and his priorities as the incoming Republican freshman class president.

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This week on Newsmakers, our guest is Representative-Elect Luke Messer (R-IN).  Representative-Elect Messer discusses the upcoming 113th session of Congress and his priorities as the incoming Republican freshman class president.

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This week on Newsmakers, our guest is Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), incoming Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member. Rep. Engel discusses how the House and Senate are weighing the issues arising from the September attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. He also discusses the accountability review board’s report this week about the State Department’s handling of the matter. Engel also discusses other foreign affairs topics.

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This week on Newsmakers our guest is Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA). The incoming chairman of the House Republican Conference looks at the so-called “fiscal cliff” and how Republicans and Democrats could come to agreement. She also talks about Republican priorities for the next Congress.

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This week on Newsmakers, our guest is the new chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont.  He  discusses key state issues, including employment and the Affordable Care Act, as well as the "fiscal cliff," and laying the groundwork for the 2013 and 2014 elections.

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This week on Newsmakers, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) discusses the debate over the “Fiscal Cliff.”  Numerous plans are circulating in Congress to address the issue. Senators Tom Harkin and Jay Rockefeller (D-WVA) are asking President Obama to reject changes to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and to work toward a deal that includes $1 in revenue for every $1 in spending cuts.

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This week on Newsmakers, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Mary Kay Henry discusses the fiscal cliff and what unions, such as the SEIU, hope to see happen.

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This week on Newsmakers, Former Governor and current Financial Services Roundtable President & CEO Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) discusses the financial sector and business communities response to the “fiscal cliff” and the U.S. economy.

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The man behind the “taxpayer protection pledge” – which 279 members of Congress signed – discusses the fiscal cliff and how Congress should address the debt and taxes and revenue in the lameduck session.

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With two days before election day, Newsmakers took a look at the race for President and the control of Congress with DNC Chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, (D-FL) and then with Senator John Thune (R-SD). They examined the state of the Presidential contest and last minute campaigning by the candidates as well as the contested House and Senate races which may decide the control of Congress.

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