Sunday Breakfast Menu, March 10

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Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida made headlines in the past week after acknowledging he would be open to a run for the White House in 2016. But the renewed attention on Mr. Bush has been mixed. His book on immigration reform is dividing a Republican Party that is trying to connect with Latino voters. Mr. Bush is doing damage control, and will be featured on almost all of this week’s Sunday shows.

The recent cuts in federal spending, known as sequestration, will also be discussed Sunday, with Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee, talking on “Fox News Sunday ” about his plan to balance the federal budget.

Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority lader, will be on CNN’s “State of the Union,” discussing what it would take to get her to agree to a budget deal that would end sequestration. Later, Representative Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California and the House majority whip, will discuss a supposed thaw in the relationship between President Obama and Congressional Republicans, in the wake of the two sides’ recently sitting down for dinner in either an act of political theater or a genuine step toward a bipartisan solution.

NBC’s “Meet the Press,” will have a discussion with current and former members of Congress about a possible truce in Washington’s partisan war, especially after a recent  strong jobs report. Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia; Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma; Representative Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Haiwaii; Representative Cory Gardner, Republican of Colorado; and Joe Scarborough, fo! rmer Congressman and host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” will all weigh in.

Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, and Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat of Florida and chair of the Democratic National Committee, will debate other political issues on ABC’s “This Week,” including Senator Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster over the use of drones.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York will appear on CBS’s “Face the Nation” to discuss the trial for Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law that is taking place in Manhattan instead of the detention center at Guantánamo Bay. Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, and Representative Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland and member of the House Budget Committee, will also be on the program.

Univision’s “Al Punto” will feature Maria Corina Machado, an assemblywoman in Venezuela, who wil speak about the death of Hugo Chávez and what it means for the country’s political future. Eric Garcetti, a city councilman in Los Angeles and mayoral runoff candidate, will also be on to talk about what his candidacy would bring to his  city’s Latinos.

Pamela Champion, mother of the Florida A&M University drum major who died as the result of hazing; Dr. Darlene Nipper, deputy executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; and Earl Fowlkes, president and chief executive of the Center for Black Equity, will appear on TV One’s “Washington Watch.”

Representative Ed Royce, Republican of California and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will be on Bloomberg’s “Political Capital,” and Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, will discuss America’s banks on Bloomberg Government’s “Capitol Gains.”

C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” will fea! ture a co! nversation with Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon and chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. He will discuss energy policy and President Obama’s choices to lead his environmental team.

The Weekend Word: School Supplies

Today’s Times

• In addition to pens, pencils and rulers, school employees in South Dakota can now take guns to work every day, John Eligon reports.

• Want to get a rise â€" maybe even a filibuster â€" out of Senate Republicans Just mention federal judgeship appointments.  The Republicans have blocked President Obama from filling any of the four vacancies on the nation’s important appeals courts, causing Democrats to say they might have justification to revisit Senate rules and claim new power to thwart filibusters, Carl Hulse writes.

• Mainstream civil liberties groups, Republican and Democratic lawmakers, conservative research groups, liberal activists and right-wing conspiracy theorists usually have littlein common, but Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky tapped into a common anxiety on Wednesday during a more than 12-hour filibuster about drones and the surveillance state, Scott Shane and Michael D. Shear report.

• “This is probably one of the most well-armed buildings in the state,” said one Texas lawmaker of the state’s Capitol campus. Legislators’ habit of wearing their weapons on the House and Senate floors reflects the normal nature of firearms throughout Texas, and it helps to illustrate why the gun debate has played out differently there than in some other parts of the country, Manny Fernandez writes.

• The Colorado Senate began a marathon session on Friday, debating a range of new firearms restrictions in a state with two mass shootings on the books, Jack Healy reports. But Republicans were united in opposition, signaling that they would spend hours and hours arguing against the bills.

Weekly Address

• President Obama started this week’s address by praising the latest jobs numbers, a rebounding stock market and a quickening pace for new home sales. “And we need to do everything we can to keep that momentum going,” he said. “At a time when our businesses are gaining a little more traction, the last thing we should do is allow Washington politics to get in the way.”  After meeting with Republican senators on Wednesday and making plans to attend both the Democratic and Republican Party meetings in Congress next week, he is hoping to “untangle some of the gridlock” and continue discssions on fixing the so-called sequester. Though he acknowledged that progress won’t be easy, “I still believe we can come together to do big things.”

 Happenings in Washington

• President Obama will speak at the annual dinner hosted by the Gridiron Club, a journalistic organization, on Saturday.