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NPR's John Greenberg reports that beginning tomorrow, a Congressional subcommittee will open hearings on cutting the amount of money the federal government spends on subsidized housing.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH EMINENT VIOLINIST AND CONDUCTOR DMITRY SITKOVETSKY, WHOSE TRANSCRIPTION OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH'S "GOLDBERG VARIATIONS - ARIA WITH 30 VARIATIONS," INITIALLY COMPOSED FOR THE HARPSICHORD, INTO A WORK FOR A STRING ORCHESTRA CAN BE HEARD ON THE NEW CD "GOLDBERG VARIATIONS," PERFORMED BY THE NEW EUROPEAN STRINGS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AVAILABLE ON NONESUCH RECORDS.

LAWS - Danny discusses the future of Congressional efforts to revamp the nation's environment laws with Bob Benenson of Congressional Quarterly and Stephen Klineberg, Professor of Sociology at Rice University. Yesterday, 51 House Republicans broke ranks with the leadership to join democrats and kill proposals that would have curbed the Environmental Protection Agency's power to enforce the clean air and water acts.

BOOM - Songwriter Jimmy Keyes died this past week. He wrote and performed the classic rhythm and blues song SH-BOOM in the 1950's, when he was with a group called The Chords. The song was one of the first r and b standards to cross over into the main commercial market.

SIMON/MINCHKIN CATS: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH PAUL McSORELY, SECRETARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL MUNCHKIN CAT SOCIETY, A BREED OF CAT THAT SUGGESTS THE FELINE MODEL OF A DACHSHUND...THEIR LEGS ARE ABOUT HALF THE LENGTH OF A TRADITIONAL CAT.

When storyteller Carmen Deedee left Cuba as a little girl many years ago, she had a difficult time adjusting to her new life in a small town in Georgia. But her transition was made easier when she discovered that some of the things she treasured in her country she could also find in her new one.

SCOTT SIMON AND JOURNALIST MARVIN KALB, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Ever since the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have visited the extraordinary collection of exhibits. But museum organizers noticed that missing among the visitors were D.C. public school kids. And so they developed a program that would bring local young people to the museum where they could not only learn about the holocaust but eventually get a job at the museum. Daniel visits with some of these high school students during one of their 10 week courses and discovers how the program has not only changed the way these teenagers view history, but how it has affected their parents as well.

NPR'S MARA LAISSON REPORTS ON THE ANNUAL GROUP OF SEVEN SUMMIT NOW BEING HELD IN HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that 25 years ago, cigarette advertising on television was banned. He looks back at the ban and the impact it had on the nation's smoking habit.