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A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore at the first presidential debate in Boston, Massachusetts; former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Senator Joseph Lieberman at the first and only vice presidential debate in Danville, Kentucky; Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on the victory of Yugoslavia's new president Vojislav Kostunica.

NPR's John Ydstie reports on Vice President Al Gore's economic plan. Gore and his rival, Texas Governor George W. Bush, both say they will work to pay off the national debt. And they both say they'll use half of the budge surplus for social security, but when it comes to their tax cuts, they both over-simplify.

Noah Adams talks to NPR's Andy Bowers in Tallahassee about today's court hearing concerning absentee ballots in Seminole County. Democratic voters have filed a lawsuit claiming Republicans illegally tampered with ballot applications from absentee voters. The lawsuit is aimed at getting all of the absentee ballots in question -- and thus George W. Bush's narrow lead in Florida -- thrown out.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports from Tallahassee that Florida's state legislature has been called into special session to consider appointing a slate of presidential electors. The legislature is controlled by Republicans who appear to favor appointing electors for Governor George W. Bush. Democratic legislators are speaking out against the special session, saying it is not appropriate for the legislature to appoint electors while court-ordered recounts are under way.

Robert talks with NPR's Peter Kenyon, who is covering the Bush headquarters in Austin, Texas. Governor George W. Bush has said he fully expects to be declared the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes, making him the next president of the United States. A recount underway in Florida aims to resolve the question that has the nation's presidential election in a state of suspended resolution.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris; Senator Joseph Lieberman; Governor George W. Bush; Vice President Al Gore; former Secretary of State James Baker; Chief Justice William Rehnquist; Theodore Olson, attorney for Governor Bush, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

NPR's Nina Totenberg explains today's ruling from the federal appeals court in Atlanta, rejecting George W. Bush's request to throw out Florida manual recounts. The appeals court upheld a lower court, which said the recounts were conducted properly, so there was no reason to intervene. The recounts were finished before the appeals court ruled.

Lawyers for George W. Bush were shuttling back and forth between two trials this morning in Tallahassee, Florida. Lawsuits filed from Seminole and Martin counties were attempting to disallow thousands of absentee ballots cast in those counties, most of them for Bush. The suits allege that Republicans seeking absentee ballots got special help in qualifying for them. NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Tallahassee.

From across the country, Americans gathered on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court today. Partisans chanted and shouted on behalf of both sides in the presidential election dispute between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Others waited quietly for hours just for the chance to see the court in action as it took up the historic case. NPR's Madeleine Brand was there.

Al Gore again made the case today that the official Florida election results are inaccurate and thousands of ballots were never counted. Later in the day, attorneys for Gore made that case before a judge in a Tallahassee, Florida courtroom. Attorneys for George W. Bush argued against any further counting of ballots. Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep in Tallahassee about that court hearing.