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Sunday Breakfast Menu, Dec. 15

Sunday's Breakfast MenuStephen Crowley/The New York Times

Things are looking up on Capitol Hill this week after the House approved a bipartisan budget deal to fund the government into 2015. The Senate is expected to pass it next week. But the compromise left some Tea Party groups grumbling.

The architects of the deal â€" the Budget Committee chairmen Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, and Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington â€" will lay out their bipartisan budget on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The former head of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, will also appear on the show to discuss the leaks by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, as American officials admitted Saturday they may never know the entirety of the files he extracted.

Mr. Ryan will also discuss his bipartisan handiwork on “Fox News Sunday.” In light of the one-year anniversary of the Newtown school shootings, Capt. Mark Kelly, husband of former Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot during an event in her Arizona district, and Larry Pratt, director of Gun Owners of America, will debate gun control.

ABC’s “This Week” will feature an interview with Secretary of State John Kerry, who will discuss his efforts to find Robert Levinson â€" the former F.B.I. agent who went missing in Iran seven years ago. This week, Mr. Levinson’s family confirmed he was working for the C.I.A. when he disappeared and accused the government of betraying him.

Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and a member of the Foreign Relations committee, will also talk on international affairs when he appears on both CNN’s “State of the Union” and CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, will join Mr. McCain on CBS to discuss the budget deal. The show will also show a tribute to the victims of the Newtown shooting.

On C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers,” Representative Harold Rogers, Republican of Kentucky, will weigh in on the budget compromise. Mr. Rogers, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had put pressure on Mr. Ryan and Ms. Murray to make a deal by early December.

The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, and Representative Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, discussed the budget and the 2014 midterm elections on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital” on Friday. The program will be repeated throughout the weekend.

On Univision’s “Al Punto,” the president of Uruguay, José Mujica, will talk about the legalization of marijuana in his country. Representative Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas, will stop by the show to talk about immigration reform, which may gain more traction now that Congress has passed a budget. The program will air at 1 p.m. Eastern.