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Jacki talks to Bernard McMahon about the relationship between the CIA and the Congressional committees created to oversee the spy agency. McMahon, who as worked for both the CIA and the Congress, says that in terms of budget and management, the CIA does not mind Congress looking over its shoulder, but when it comes to operations, relations can be tense.

A certain co-dependence has long driven the relationship etween lobbyists and politicans in the Nation's capital. Much influence and nformation is channeled through these contacts. NPR's Peter Overby visited the efferson Group, a professional lobbying office in Washington D.C., and reports n the current state of this relationship, as well as the influence community's esponse to the first one-hundred days of the Republican-led Congress.

NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR REPORTS ON THREE BILLS PASSED THIS WEEK IN THE HOUSE THAT ARE INTENDED TO REFORM THE NATION'S CIVIL LAW SYSTEM.

NPR'S PETER KENYON REPORTS ON LAST NIGHT'S UNPRECEDENTED NATIONALLY BROADCAST ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH.

NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR ASSESSES THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE 104TH CONGRESS.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Village Voice columnist and d-expert Leslie Savan about recent television ads that use music by the late inger Janis Joplin and the art of late artist Keith Haring to sell their wares. collection of Savan's essays, titled "THE SPONSORED LIFE: ADS, TV AND AMERICAN ULTURE" was recently published by the Temple University Press.

Alice Magill recalls the time ..just before her wedding when she learned why her father would not be able to give her away.

While acts of terrorism like the bombing in Oklahoma City arely occur on American soil, other countries around the globe have been orced to deal with extreme acts of violence throughout their past and current istories. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Conor O'Cleary, the Washington orrespondent for the Irish Times newspaper, about what it's like to live in an nvironment rife with the fear of urban terrorism.

Daniel speaks with NPR's Andy Bowers about today's presidential elections in France. Conservative Paris mayor Jacques Chirac defeated socialist candidate Lionel Jospin by a clear margin in this second round of French balloting.

President Clinton leaves tomorrow to visit Moscow and to meet with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Daniel talks to NPR's Ann Garrels about the mood of the Russian people and the state of Russian politics. Russians find that the security of their lives under the Soviet system is gone and they are facing an uncertain future. She says that although Yeltsin is not popular, there are no political alternatives to his leadership.