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This is the first of four reports featured this half hour about what changes the country expects from the new Republican congress to be sworn in this week. In Boston, Anthony Brooks of member station WBUR examines the promises the new congress has made to reform welfare and what it may mean to people who now depend upon it.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman examines the issue of crime in a city that barely gave it any thought until a few years ago. Now with crime on the increase, citizens in Washington State want to know what their leaders in the other Washington are going to do to make them safer.

A few resolutions we're sure to be hearing more about in '95.

SIMON/ARMY-McCARTHY HEARINGS: WE NOTE THAT TODAY, IN 1954, THE TELEVISED SENATE ARMY-McCARTHY HEARINGS BEGAN.

Jacki talks to Mindy Cameron of the Seattle Times, Tom Bray of the Detroit News, and Nick Monsurat of the Burlington (VT) Free Press about the first 100 days of Congress.

Rock historian ED WARD

SUSAN STAMBERG AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE END OF THE REPUBLICAN'S "FIRST ONE HUNDRED DAYS" AND THE OTHER TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

PATRICK MCGUIGAN, editorial page editor of the Daily Oklahoman

Wade Goodwyn reports on the the status of efforts to find the more than 150 people still missing form the bombing in Oklahoma City. Heavy rains and stong winds have hampered efforts and increased fears that the building is unstable and could collapse further.

Comedian AL FRANKEN, writer and actor on "Saturday Night Live." His characters have included the one-man mobile uplink unit, Pat Robertson, Paul Tsongas, and Stuart Smalley, host of "Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley." In 1992, FRANKEN published a book under Stuart's name; Stuart's new project is an upcoming movie called "Stuart Saves His Family.