Guest Lineups For The Sunday News Shows
Every program features current or incoming members of Congress, as Republicans plan to take control of the Senate and expand their House majority as a result of the Nov. 4 elections.
Immigration will be a featured topic on ABC's This Week, which features interviews with Reps. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.
President Obama's plan to issue executive orders granting legal status to millions of migrants also figures to be discussed on CNN's State of the Union. It has interviews with Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Al Franken, D-Minn., as well as Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.
The current, lame duck Congress is considering such issues as the Keystone XL oil pipeline and extending a federal spending plan that expires Dec. 11. The next Congress, including a Republican-run Senate, starts in January.
Fox News Sunday has interviews with current lawmakers Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I as well as two incoming GOP senators elected on Nov. 4: Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and James Lankford, R-Okla.
Some of the newly elected Republicans have pledged to try and repeal the Obama health care plan, another subject of Sunday talk.
NBC's Meet the Press features an interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who will discuss the new enrollment period that began Saturday.
Meet the Press also has Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., a critic of the health care law and a possible 2016 presidential candidate.
Foreign affairs takes center stage on another Sunday show, CBS' Face the Nation.
It has an interview with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who will talk about the recent release of Americans held captive in North Korea, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, is scheduled to be on Face the Nation, as are two senators: Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.