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about the contentious meeting last night on re-opening the federal government.

State of the State address in which he called for a tax cut, sweeping welfare reform and a crackdown on fathers of babies born out of wedlock.

bargaining position on the federal budget and the increasing questions surrounding the First Lady.

Linda Gradstein reports on Israeli reaction to King Hussein of Jordon's first official visit to Israel. As Israel and Syria negotiate a peace treaty, the King's visit sends the signal that Jordan supports warm relations between the Arab states and Israel.

NPR's Melissa Block reports from New York on the storms impact throughout the region.

Biographer DIANE WOOD MIDDLEBROOK. She wrote a controversial book about the troubled writer Anne Sexton. The controversy surrounded MIDDLEBROOK's source material: she had access to transcripts of Sexton's psychiatric sessions with the approval of Sexton's daughter and psychiatrist. Sexton killed herself in 1974. Sexton began writing poetry in 1956 following a suicidal breakdown and after her therapist suggested she try writing poetry. "Anne Sexton: A Biography," was published by Houghton Mifflin and is now a paperback. [Originally aired 8/

the commander of NATO forces in Bosnia, about scope of NATO's mission in Bosnia and what it has achieved in its first 30 days.

Cokie Roberts about President Clinton's state of the union address.

Workers are protesting cuts proposed in social programs while German trade unions have agreed to a wage freeze.

All Things Considered introduces Lunch Menu Man to the nation. David Price, a former used car salesman in Concord, North Carolina, has become a local celebrity with his new call-in service, in which he reads the school district's lunch menu.

Alan Chesue reviews "Children of the Alley," a translation of the forty-year-old work by Naguib Mahfouz [nah-GEEB mah-FOOZ hard 'g'], a story reminiscent of the 1001 Arabian Nights. [STATIONS: The book is published by Doubleday.]

While the East Coast was inundated with snow this week, Alaska is experiencing a drought. Linda talks with Gary Hufford in Alaska, who we spoke to in December about the lack of snow there. The problem continues. He says he'd be happy to arrange to take the snow from the East Coast. The drought of snow poses problems for pipes, tourism, skiers and the dog sled races.