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that contains nearly $66 Billion for social programs and education in the next fiscal year. That amounts to a freeze at current year levels. If it clears Congress, the measure faces a likely veto from President Clinton.

and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott spoke to the Republican Governors' Conference yesterday. Speaker Gingrich said their approach will be incremental, seeking tax cuts, Medicaid reform, and a balanced amendment to the Constitution.

on Speaker Newt Gingrich's bid for a second term. His re-election has been clouded by his admission that the ethics sub-committee received misleading documents about funding of a college course he taught.

Elizabeth McCracken, a novelist who's been named a winner in the Granta American Novelists Under Forty competition, has written the story of a librarian who falls in love with one of her patrons. It wouldn't be so unusual... except that the patron is a teenaged giant. Alan Cheuse has a review. (2:00) (Dial

as some members of his party publicly question whether they will vote for him next month because of charges he violated ethics rules.

, the Senate appears to have taken the legislative lead. Yesterday Republicans and Democrats introduced more than 20 bills representing each party's priorities.

NPR's David Welna reports from Managua that one of the big issues in tomorrow's presidential elections in Nicaragua is land confiscation. The Sandanista regime seized a considerable amount of private property when it was in power in the 1980's, and many of those who lost property are demanding it back. Former Sandanista leader Daniel Ortega, who's running in tomorrow's election, is himself living in a confiscated villa.

that would reform the nation's welfare system. But so far, there's no word on whether President Clinton will sign or veto the legislation...

Conservative critics of a bipartisan compromise deal to reduce federal debt and spending are expected to make their voices heard Wednesday night.

The U.S. State Department has been sending American musicians abroad as cultural ambassadors since the 1950s.