Stephen Crowley/The New York TimesIn the wake of President Obama’s meetings on Capitol Hill with lawmakers from both parties, the Sunday shows feature discussions of whether Congress is any closer to a fiscal agreement.
Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio will appear on ABC’s “This Week†to talk about the budget battles, as well as the Congressional efforts on immigration and guns.
The program will also include a conversation about the foreign policy challenges facing the Obama administration with Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state; Stephen J. Hadley, former national security adviser; and retired Gen. James E. Cartwright, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In addition, Representative Xavier Becerraof California, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, will join ABC’s panel.
Having released a new budget proposal last week, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, chairman of the Budget Committee, will be on CBS’s “Face the Nation,†along with Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, will be on CBS to talk about the future of the Republican Party after the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, and Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, will discuss the budget on “Fox News Sunda! y.â€Â Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, and Steven C. LaTourette, former congressman and president of the Republican Main Street Partnership, will also weigh in on where the G.O.P. is headed.
Marking the 10th anniversary of the war in Iraq, CNN’s “GPS†features a conversation with Paul Wolfowitz, former deputy defense secretary and one of the architects of the war.
With a packed roster, CNN’s “State of the Union†looks at national security with the chairman and ranking Democrat of the House Intelligence Committee, Representatives Mike Rogers of Michigan and C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, respectively. Then, Representative Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii, and Representative Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, offer their perspective as veterans on the war in Iraq.
The panel on CNN’s “State of the Union†will weigh how Republicans can bounc back from their November defeats, featuring Alberto Cárdenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union; Representative Raúl M. Grijalva, Democrat of Arizona; Kiki McLean, Democratic strategist; and Dr. Benjamin Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University, who attracted attention for criticizing Democratic policy in February and spoke at CPAC.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,†Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who is the former president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, talks about the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis. Later, the panel will include Frank Keating, former Oklahoma governor and former chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops’ National Review Board, and Kathleen Kennedy Town! send, former lieutenant governor of Maryland and author of “Failing America’s Faithful.â€
Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee, and Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, House Majority Whip, will also talk to NBC about the budget debates. Mr. McCarthy also appeared on Bloomberg’s “Political Capital,†which airs Fridays with repeats over the weekend.
Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, will appear on Bloomberg’s “Capitol Gains.†The program is on Sundays at noon E.S.T.
C-Span’s “Newsmakers†has Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the new chairman of the Republican Study Committee.
On TV One’s “Washington Watch†Sunday at 11 a.m. E.S.T., Pope Francis and CPAC will be the focus of the conversation.
Univision’s “Al Punto,†which airs Sundays at 10 a.m. E.S.T., and Telemundo’s “Enfoque,†which airs at non E.S.T., will also feature coverage of the new pope, the first from Latin America. Univision will talk to Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez of Mexico and Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston.
