1.   A look at the impact federal cuts to the heating assistance program have had on poor and elderly households in Maine.

2.   Gov. Angus King comments on everything from the federal budget battle to whether he will ask the White House for emergency funding for heating assistance.

3.   It also would increase spending on low-income heating assistance.

4.   Reps. John Baldacci and Jim Longley Jr. join a congressional rally in the freezing rain to call for emergency funding for the federal heating assistance program.

5.   Rep. Jim Longley, Jr., switches his position on the federal heating assistance program.

6.   Some budget officials in the White House have floated the idea of eliminating federal heating assistance over the next five years.

7.   Longer term, Democrats want more money for existing programs for weatherization and low-income heating assistance.

8.   President Clinton, after being inundated with pleas for help from officials in several states, on Tuesday directed an emergency release of home heating assistance funds.