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People sampled from Houston and Kansas City offer comments about President Bush's budget address last night.

Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Don Gonyea, who is traveling with the president today, one day after Mr. Bush gave his budget address to a joint session of Congress. The president got good reviews on his oratory, but Democrats claim that the plan favors the rich. Mr. Bush, in visits around the country to sell his plan, insisted that the Democrats were playing "class warfare," and that the current state of the economy warrants his $1.6 trillion tax cut.

NPR's David Welna reports on the battle lines being drawn in Congress in the aftermath of President Bush's budget proposal that was sent to Capitol Hill this morning. Reaction to the president's speech last night predictably fell along partisan lines, and today's skirmishing over the details was not much different.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr doesn't see much hope for bipartisanship in negotiations over the Bush budget.

NPR's Barbara Bradley cruises Washington, D.C., sites linked with espionage on a bus tour run by former spies and spy catchers.

When 91-year-old Ezell Holley checked in a budget motel due to Texas' storms, he made the most of it — calling it the "Waldorf Astoria." The real hotel in Rome invited Holley to stay at their venue.

NPR's Guy Raz reports that one of the casualties of German reunification was the Dynamo soccer team in the city of Dresden.

Noah Adams talks to Pete Earley, author of Confession of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames, about what motivates spies. He says the biggest motivator is money. (4:15) Earley's book was published by Bantam Books, 1988.

Critics say California created its own power crisis with a deregulation plan that let wholesale prices rise and fall without letting retail prices follow. Proponents of deregulation say it works when all players take part in the give and take of market supply and demand. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

The Houston, Texas trio Spoon has recorded their first album in three years, it's called Girls Can Tell. The music is rock and roll with a tinge of punk -- and it was released today. Nick Mirov writes about music for Pitchfork Media-dot-Com, he has a review. (4:00) The album Girls Can Tell by Spoon is available on Merge Records, catalog # MRG195, see www.mrg2000.com. Also see www.pitchforkmedia.com.