A history of Minnesota's power in Washington, DC

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January 26, 2011
Gary Eichten - Host, Sara Meyer - Producer, Al Eisele - Interviewee, Bill Frenzel - Interviewee, Curtis Gilbert - Reporter, Erik Paulsen - Interviewee, Michele Bachmann - Interviewee, Norman Ornstein - Interviewee
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Minnesotans Al Eisele and Bill Frenzel, each with more than 40 years of participation in Washington politics and journalism, join Midday to discuss how Minnesota's power and influence has ebbed and flowed over the years.

Al Eisele is editor-at-large of The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress. He was a longtime Washington reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press-Dispatch and Knight-Ridder newspapers, and former press secretary to Vice President Walter Mondale, and author of Almost to the Presidency: A Biography of Two American Politicians.

Bill Frenzel is a scholar at Brookings Institution. He was a member of U.S. House of Representatives (R-Minn) 1971-1991. He is also co-chair at Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and chairman for President's Advisory Commission on Trade Policy and Negotiations.

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