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NPR's Richard Harris reports the Congress may weaken The Clean Water Act. The House this week approved a measure that would allow the dumping of more industrial wastes and reduce the amount of land designated as federally protected wetlands.

Producer Kathleen Kennedy and her husband, the producer-director Frank Marshall, made their names by helping Stephen Speilberg make his movies. Now they have a new company for which Marshall has just directed a new movie, "Congo," adapted from a Michael Crichton novel. Film critic Stephen Schiff has this review.

2: TV Producer, STEPHEN J. CANNELL. During the 1970's STEPHEN J. CANNELL was one of television's most successful writers, penning scripts for such hits as "The Rockford Files," "Barretta," and "Black Sheep Squadron." Cannell later established his own production company, Stephen J. Cannell Productions. His productions include such programs as "The A-Team", "Stingray", and "Hardcastle and McCormick." CANNELL has a new novel called "The Plan" (Morrow).

Journalist JOHN HOCKENBERRY. He spent more than a decade with National Public Radio as a general assignment reporter, Middle East correspondent, and program host. HOCKENBERRY is paralyzed from the waist down and he writes of his life's obstacles and accomplishments in his new book Moving Violations (Hyperion). He is presently a correspondent for ABC's news magazine show "Day One," for which he received an Emmy.

HOST ALEX CHADWICK SHARES SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PRICE AN UNWANTED KIND OF FAME FOR HUGH GRANT.

Technology Columnist for Newsweek STEVEN LEVY comments on porn and the internet.

2: Legal commentator DAVID MARGOLICK. He's the former author of the New York Times "At The Bar" column, and now a frequent contributor. MARGOLICK was recently promoted from the national legal affairs correspondent to San Francisco bureau chief for the New York Times. MARGOLICK is presently covering the O.J. Simpson trial for the Times. His legal columns have been collected into a new book, At the Bar: The Passions and Peccadilloes of American Lawyers (Touch

Mike O'Conner reports from Sarajevo that Bosnian government troops are trying to consolidate their gains in a military offensive unleashed over the past few days.

Daniel talks with Journalist Lee May and his father about their re-uniting after 39 years apart. Lee May who now lives in Atlanta, sought to find his father in 1989, his father lives in Meridian Mississippi. Lee May has written a book about the biggest thing they have in common....Gardening.

Daniel talks with Lois Underhill, the author of the book "The Woman Who Ran For President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull." She was the first woman to run for President in the U.S. and to address a Congressional committee. She was also the first to have a brokerage firm on Wall Street in New York City. The book chronicles Woodhull's life in the late 1800's.