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Linda talks with NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson and NPR's national political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold about Dick Morris's resignation from the Clinton campaign and the impact it might have on the president's re-election bid. They will also talk about the overall outlook for the fall campaign.

Commentator Amy Dickinson tells about her lifelong love of the movies-- and how that love was nourished when she left home and her tiny black and white television and found the revival movie house-- The Biograph. Now that it is closing she is glad she has seen every movie that ever was-- but she has learned that life does not have hollywood endings.

Robert talks with NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson, who is traveling today with President Clinton as he campaigns in Florida. Clinton hopes to win in the state this fall, even though Florida has not voted for a Democratic president since the 1970s. He spoke to a rally at a Tampa high school and to senior citizens near Miami.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that the House debates a health insurance bill (with a vote later this evening) that will allow people who have insurance to keep it even if they get sick or change jobs. But conservative Republicans have tacked on a number of features for insurers, small businesses, doctors and other interest groups that are bound to give the bill problems when it meets the more streamlined Senate version later this spring.

- An American nun, sister Dianna Ortiz has been holding a vigil out in front of the White House hoping to pressure US officials to release classified documents about alleged torture in Guatemala. Ortiz says she was tortured in Guatemala in 1989 and that a North American was involved. Now, the US government has released thousands of previusly secret documents on Guatemala. Tom Gjelten reports.

Republicans to reach an agreement on next year's budget. Meeting at the White House yesterday with a group of Senators from both parties, the President said he is willing to compromise with Republicans on a plan to balance the budget.

a few political digs at Bob Dole at a White House welcoming ceremony for the Italian President even though he had promised not to used official engagements for political purposes.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's news, including Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns, Secretary of State-designate Madeleine Albright, Federal Aviation Spokesman for the Great Lakes region Don Zochert, and sound of this morning's lift-off of the shuttle Atlantis.

Ray talks with Patrick Murphy about a bill that will speed up the process of moving children from foster care to adoption while limiting some parental rights. The bill passed in the House yesterday, and a similar bill is pending in the Senate. Murphy is the Public Guardian for Cook County, IL and is author of the forthcoming Wasted: the Failure of Child Welfare and the Plight of America (Ivan R. Dee Publishers).

Linda talks with Congressman Ray LaHood, a Republican from Illinois, and Congressman David Skaggs, a Democrat from Colorado, about basic rules of civility that are put into practice on the floor of the House. The key to making Congress function in a polite and respectful manner, they say, is having a basic level of mutual trust and respect amongst the Congress members.