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Wednesday October 27, 2004

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10:00Congressional Races

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.

Guests

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

11:00Jason DeParle: "American Dream" (Viking)

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.

Guests

Jason DeParle, senior writer for The New York Times.

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