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NPR's Peter Overby reports on negotiations in the Senate over the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. Today the focus was on raising the bill's limits on the amount of money individuals may contribute directly to candidates. There are still some landmines ahead for the bill before final passage is assured.

In the last few months two groups of researchers have publicly declared they are ready to attempt cloning human beings. Today, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a public hearing to examine the issue of human cloning. NPR's Joe Palca went to Capitol Hill where scientists, ethicists and politicians debated some of life's most fundamental questions.

Commentator Brian Egerston and his wife are having trouble getting pregnant. After seeing a doctor and undergoing surgery -- still no baby. He says they've started to see babies everywhere. And relatives ask them when they will have kids.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a White House announcement that President Bush will not implement the climate treaty negotiated in Kyoto, Japan. Democratic leaders in Congress and environmental groups promised to fight Mr. Bush on the Kyoto climate treaty and other recent policy reversals they call setbacks to the environment.

NPR's Eric Weiner in Jerusalem reports Israeli helicopter gunships attacked Palestinian targets in the West Bank and Gaza today, in response to a string of Palestinian bomb attacks over the past few days.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports President Bush's foreign policy team is not fully cohesive yet. Several policy positions articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell have been out of line with those later adopted by the president.

Around the country, there's a rush on this month to get married. NPR's Mandalit delBarco reports a last minute action by the Clinton administration has immigrants rushing to tie the knot. Under provision 245-i an immigrant without permanent residency status who marries someone who is a legal resident or citizen will not have to leave the U.S. in order to legitimize their immigration status. But the provision only lasts until the end of April.

Six years ago, commentator Susan McKinney met a young Mexican man in San Miguel del Allende. Before they were married, she moved into his family's house. She questions her identity as a woman in her fianci's crowded Mexican home. She is an American and she works outside the house, so she isn't allowed to do the chores that define the lives of the other women in the crowded household.

Host Bob Edwards talks to commentator John Feinstein about Tiger Woods and the Masters golf tournament, which begins today in Augusta, Georgia.

Steve Tripoli of member station WBUR reports on new findings that show that a high percentage of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Several organizations are trying to change that with new programs to make it easier to save.