paul caine joins us from washington tonight.ir deep have you on the program. -- goo dot have you on the program. why are democrats fighting intensely over these leadership posts? >> whatever these elections are held and you have the fall lot immediately afterwards. for the winners, it is easier to divide up the spoils of victory. for the losers, and the house of representatives, there is one less seat when you're in the minority. it is a bit tougher because people have gotten used to each sort of interest group of the various blocks of power inside the democratic caucus have had somebody there. another is one less seat. and so there really is musical chairs. and they are trying to figure out when the music stops at the middle of next week who ends up sitting at those seats. and right now, two very powerful people, jim clyburn, the highest ranking african-american in congressional history, and steny hoyer, who has served as an outreach person to moderate democrats. those are the two people jockeying for the last seat at the table

tomorrow on "washington journal," washington post congressional reporter paul cain looks at the agenda for this month's lame duck session in congress. republican senator elect mike lee of utah talks about his election to the senate, the tea party movement, and the balanced budget initiative. democrat, but the congressman in electhansen clarke talks about legislative priorities in the democratic party. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> the deputy prime minister said it was his aim to end university tuition fees. can he update the house? >> mr. speaker, of course i acknowledge this is an extraordinarily difficult issue. i have been entirely open about the fact that we have not been able to deliver the policy that we held in opposition. >> now, "prime minister's questions" from the british house of commons. more than 50,000 students and reporters protested in london over the tuition hike. the plan will increase tuition fees to $14,000 a year, three times the current rate. debbie prime minister and nick clegg stood in for prime minister david cameron who was on

paul cain is with "the washington post". what is on the agenda? guest: one thing that was not on the agenda was the fire alarm for freshman orientation. i am still waiting to hear exactly what happened. basically they are coming back now with a big, full plate of agenda. still deciding what to do about the bush era tax cuts. they have an unemployment insurance benefit expired. those are for people who had the limit, 12 months been the usual limit. those expire november 30. they might have to tackle that. they also have the jury may have to come up with something to fund the federal government. that could probably be handled the week after thanksgiving. but that is still a major issue. they can't figure out whether to fund it for a few months or just punted for an entire year. that is just the big issues. they're a lot of small ones underneath. there also leadership elections that you talked about. an ethics trial for charlie rangel. and a couple of key internal party caucus of votes about things like earmarks, what to do about that, some committee

paul cain is with "the washington post". what is on the agenda? guest: one thing that was not on the agenda was the fire arm for freshman orientation. i am still waiting to hear exactly what happened. basically they are coming back now with a big, full plate of agenda. still deciding what to do about the bush era tax cuts. they have an unemployment insurance benefit expired. those are for people who had the limit, 12 months been the usual limit. those expire november 30. they might havto tackle that. they also have the jury may have to come up with something to fund the federal government. that could probably be handled the week after thanksgiving. but that is still a major issue. they can't figure out whether to fund it for a few months or just punted for an entire year. that is just the big issues. they're a lot ofmall ones underneath. there also leadership elections that you talked about. an ethics tria for charlie rangel. and a couple of key internal party caucus of votes about things like earmarks, what to do about that, some committee chairm

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