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Guest host: Katty Kay
Debate begins in the House on its version of health care overhaul legislation. An update on how the House and Senate plans compare, impact on the deficit and the overall outlook for the U.S. economy.
Norman Ornstein, is resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; coauthor with Thomas Mann of "The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track."
Bruce Bartlett, columnist, former Reagan economic policy aide, and Treasury Department appointee under George H.W. Bush. Latest book: "The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward."
David Cutler, professor of applied economics, Harvard University, senior advisor to the Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign, and author of "Your Money Or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System"
Guest host: Katty Kay
The author of "The Time Traveler's Wife" returns with a new novel set near a famed London cemetery. It's a mystery, a ghost story, and a love story rolled into one.
Audrey Niffenegger stayed after the show to answer a few questions we couldn't get to on the air.
Audrey Niffenegger, a visual artist and a guide at Highgate Cemetery; author of "The Time Traveler's Wife" and two illustrated novels, "The Three Incestuous Sisters" and "The Adventuress."
Author Audrey Niffenegger.
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