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Five former Senators discuss the power shift in the Senate. Jim Lehrer talks with Republicans John Danforth of Missouri, Hank Brown of Colorado and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, and Democrats David Boren of Oklahoma and Dale Bumpers of Arkansas.

Margaret Warner talks with Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute and Sarah Binder of the Brookings Institution about the shift of power in the Senate.