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Republicans are expected to hold a majority in the House of Representatives after voters go to the polls next week, but the Senate majority is up in the air. A conversation about which Congressional races to watch and what's at stake.
Ron Elving, Washington editor for National Public Radio
Thomas Mann, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of "The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How To Get It Back On Track"
Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
More than a decade after then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton pledged to "end welfare as we know it," a New York Times reporter looks at what Washington's welfare reforms meant for members of one Milwaukee family.
Jason DeParle, senior writer for The New York Times.