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Congress is scheduled to vote today on a five hundred billion dollar package that combines domestic spending with war funding. We'll talk about this year's protracted budget battles and the chances of repeating last year's budget collapse.
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"
Brian Riedl, senior budget analyst,The Heritage Foundation
Philip Joyce, Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
A chocolate expert discusses the intricacies of buying, storing, tasting, judging and, most of all, savoring the world's most heavenly chocolates.
Clay Gordon, editor and publisher of Chocophile.com and the founder of the New World Chocolate Society.