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Linda talks with NPR's Peter Kenyon about Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich's effort to ensure his re-election tomorrow as the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Gingrich began his day in Marietta, Georgia, where he told constituents that he would be sworn in tomorrow as Speaker despite his admission of ethics violations. He is to address House Republicans this evening in Washington about members' concerns, but leaders of both parties predicted he would be re-elected.

of the House Ethics Committee and Professor Dennis Thompson from Harvard's JFK School of Government about the problems the House Ethic Committee has had trying to deal with allegations regarding Speaker Gingrich's ethical improprieties troubles and the subsequent row over the taping of a GOP leadership conference call.

in the Gingrich ethic violations case. The Justice Department has received a tape of House Speaker Gingrich and other Republican leaders talking about counter-attacks on the House Ethics Committee. A couple of democratic activists in Florida taped the conversation, and delivered it to Representative Jim McDermott, a member of the Ethics Committee.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's news, including the poet Allen Ginsberg who died yesterday; President Bill Clinton; White House Spokesman Mike McCurry; Chicago Bulls basketball player Michael Jordan at the White House; widow of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Leah Rabin, at the National Press Club and sound of the shuttle Columbia leaving Cape Canaveral.

The White House is announcing today that the federal government will hire as many as ten-thousand welfare recipients over the next few years. A few of the new workers will be employed at the White House, while the rest will be hired by other agencies. NPR's Mara Liasson looks at the possible impact of the move, which is intended to encourage private firms to help people end their dependency on public assistance.

between the Justice Department and Nationwide Insurance, whereby Nationwide will invest more than $13 million in minority housing in 10 cities. Attorney General Janet Reno announced the settlement yesterday, calling it the largest ever under the federal Fair Housing Act. Nationwide also agreed to make insurance more available and affordable to homeowners in minority neighborhoods.

The head of a House committee that is investigating the Democratic National Committee's fundraising practices said yesterday that he is expanding his probe to include charges that the Chinese government tried to gain influence with the Clinton administration by engineering foreign campaign contributions. The White House denies both this allegation and a new press report that the administration altered its policy toward Guam after the DNC received almost a million dollars from residents of the U.S. territory. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

The International Atomic Energy Agency says North Korea has moved nuclear fuel rods into a building housing a reactor sealed eight years ago by agreement with the United States. The plant could make weapons-grade plutonium. The White House is weighing its options. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

Linda talks with Paul Burka, Executive Editor of the Texas Monthly, about people from President-elect Bush's inner circle in Austin who will be joining him in Washington. Burka talks about Bush's top White House adviser, Karen Hughes; senior White House adviser Karl Rove; and Bush's choice for Federal Emergency Management Agency director, Joe Allbaugh.

On his first official business day in the White House, President George W. Bush swore in scores of new staff and pledged his administration to the highest standards of ethics. Mr. Bush also met with congressional leaders from his own party and with a group of Democratic senior statesmen who do not now hold office. The White House announced that the president would meet with current Democratic leaders tomorrow. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.