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Here are some details on who will appear on this week's public policy shows on the state and national level...

TPT's Almanac:

DFL Sen. Tom Bakk, DFL Rep. Ann Lenczewski and Revenue Commissioner Ward Einess will talk tax policy (if House and Senate aren't in session).

The poli sci profs are back for another rollicking look at the U.S. Senate Race that May Never End. Larry Jacobs ( U of M) is joined by Steve Schier (Carleton), Stacey Hunter Hecht (Bethel) and David Schultz (Hamline).

WCCO's Sunday Morning:

DFL House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher will discuss Session 2009 and the tax debate.

Jeff Drimel - President of the Minnesota PGA on Golf Week Minnesota (kicks off Monday).

GOP Rep. Steve Smith will talk Session 2009 and the tax debate.

KSTP's At Issue:

DFL Rep. Paul Marquart and GOP Rep. Laura Brod will talk taxes.

Cathy Hartnett and Blois Olson will offer analysis and Face-off

On the national scene:

ABC's "This Week" - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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CBS' "Face the Nation" - Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

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NBC's "Meet the Press" - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs; Jordan's King Abdullah II; Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian.

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CNN's "State of the Union" - Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Barack Obama; Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.; John Podesta, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton; Ken Duberstein, former chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan; Pete Souza, White House photographer.

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"Fox News Sunday" - Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council; Sens. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Maj. Gen. Carla Hawley-Bowland, commanding general of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.