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Members of Congress today asked NASA whether the agency can contain cost overruns for the International Space Station. The White House wants NASA to curtail construction on the station in order to make up for budget problems. Some members of Congress seem worried that the station won't be much good if it's missing key components. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the premiere of the new Comedy Central sitcom about life in the Bush Whitehouse, –Thats My Bush— by the creators of –South Park.—

The agency acted after an independent panel of scientists strongly supported the move. Kids could start getting vaccinated within the week.

Brian Bull of South Dakota Public Radio reports on the fight over Spirit Mound, a key site on the Lewis and Clark trail. With the trail bicentennial coming up, some want to make it an upgraded tourist site. But some Indian tribes consider it sacred and don't want millions of tourists walking there.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Edward Goldberg, Director of the Medici Archive Project, about his work with the Medici family archive in Florence, Italy. The archive is a collection of virtually every letter sent or received by the Medici court during its rule from the mid-1500s to the mid-1700s. The correspondence reveals a great deal about Italian art and early modern European history. Goldberg and his colleagues are documenting and digitizing each letter, and hope to have the project complete by 2012. (6:28) For more on the project, check out our Medici Archive Web page.

The Car Talk guys, TOM & RAY MAGLIOZZI talk with Terry about their first garage and more. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

Commentator Lenore Skenazy offers a satire about a moneyless high-tech investor who gets offered a sleazy retirement plan full of perils to replace her once sizeable portfolio.

NPR's Emily Harris reports organized labor is disturbed about several Bush administration decisions and is preparing to oppose Republican congressional candidates next year. Organized business, on the other hand, is taking its issues to the administration, especially at the regulatory level of federal agencies.

Around the country, there's a rush on this month to get married. NPR's Mandalit delBarco reports a last minute action by the Clinton administration has immigrants rushing to tie the knot. Under provision 245-i an immigrant without permanent residency status who marries someone who is a legal resident or citizen will not have to leave the U.S. in order to legitimize their immigration status. But the provision only lasts until the end of April.

In an effort to stabilize their economies, a number of South American countries have fixed the value of their currencies to the American dollar. In Argentina, for example, bank customers can get their money in either pesos or U.S. dollars. They're worth the same amount. But there's a downside to the move -- those countries have essentially ceded control over their economies. Some of them are now reconsidering the idea. NPR's Martin Kaste reports.