Sunday morning: Chuck Schumer and Paul Krugman on ABC, Norm Dicks on C-SPAN

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(liberal/progressive guests in bold)

On ABC's This Week, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.) will discuss the Middle East conflicts, and Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Jeff Sessions (R-AL) will discuss the federal budget. The roundtable will have Washington Post columnist George Will, New York Times columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, Republican strategist/former Pentagon spokesperson Torie Clark, and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.

Rep. Norm Dicks, a Democrat who represents Tacoma, Wash. and the Olympic Peninsula, will be on C-SPAN's Newsmakers. That show is tape-delayed as it is available in its entirety now on C-SPAN.org. According to the C-SPAN summary, Rep. Dicks considers causing a government shutdown to be irresponsible.

Face the Nation (CBS) will have Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina.

Meet the Press (NBC) will have an exclusive interview with Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and then Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), who's the Intelligence Committee chairman and whose district covers southern Michigan including some of Lansing. The roundtable: National Urban League president Marc Morial, Republican strategist and Time columnist Mike Murphy, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates chairman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin. Note: the National Urban League recently released a study about the economic state of African-Americans.

Fox News Sunday (Fox broadcast network/Fox News) is definitely NOT fair and balanced as both its guests Sunday morning will be Republicans: Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin (Budget cmte chair) and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. Oh neither is

State of the Union (CNN): Gen. James Jones; Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX and will advocate a balanced budget amendment) and Mark Warner (D-VA); Democratic strategist Donna Brazile (who appears a lot on ABC too) and conservative pundit, Book of Virtues author, and former Reagan administration education secretary Bill Bennett.

For those wanting voices beyond the Beltway, tune in to Fareed Zakaria GPS (CNN), which will feature Carter administration National Security Adv. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former bin Laden associate Noman Benotman, roundtable with French envoy to Libya Bernard-Henri Lévy, Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass, former CIA officer and author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism Robert Baer, and New York Times Middle East correspondent Robert Worth. And if you're just not in the mood for politics, Washington Watch on TV One will have an interview with former Olympic track runner Marion Jones, who forfeited her gold medal due to steroid use, as well as the radio host Tom Joyner and Tyler Perry's House of Payne actor Lamman Rucker.

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