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NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports from Los Angeles on Congresswoman Andrea Seastrand's return home to California to visit with her constituents. Seastrand is one of the 73 freshman Republicans in Congress. And like many of her colleagues, Seastrand is now worried how the budget stalemate might impact her re-election campaign this fall.

Daniel talks wtih Dr. John Wennberg of Dartmouth Medical School about a recent study which found that medical care varies dramatically depending on what part of the country your in. The lesson, Wennberg says, is that America doesn't have a health care "system" and that many of the medical decisions made are due to supply and not demand.

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Liane Hansen speaks with syndicated columnist Cindy dams about her new book, "Iron Rose," a biography of Rose Fitzgerald ennedy, the matriarch of the Kennedy political family, who died one year go. Adams thinks Rose Kennedy provided a great deal more strength of will o the family than is normally supposed.

Commentator Marion Winik explains her dislike of shopping and her inability to do it well.

1: RICHARD PRELINGER is a archivist educational, industrial, and public-service films made from the 1930s through the 1960s. He's the director of Prelinger Associates, Inc., and he's collected some 25,000 films with titles like "A is For Atom," "Good Wrinkles: The Story of a Remarkable Fruit," and "Are You Popular?" Some of his collected films will be shown at the American Museum of the Moving Image (Jan 27-Feb 11). The retrospective is called: "Millennial Mysteries: Continuing Revelations from the Prelinger Archives." PRELINGER compiled and edited a two volume videotape and disk documentary, "To New Horizons: Ephemeral Films 1931-1945," and "You Can't Get There From Here: Ephemeral Films 1946-1960." Also writer KEN SMITH who was writing a book on the films. SMITH is co-author of "Roadside America" books (volumes 1 and 2) about tourist attractions in the U.S. He's also an archivist with Prelinger Associates. (REBROADCAST from 1

RECORD SNOW HAS FALLEN ON PARTS OF THE MIDWEST. MICHAEL MORAN REPORTS FROM DES MOINES.

director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about the findings from the exit polls in New Hampshire.

Robert Siegel speaks with Keven Willey, a political columnist with The Arizona Republic, about the upcoming Republican primary. She says that 55% of the voters are undecided, and the race is wide open.

NPR's John Burnett continues his report on Herman Wrice's war on drugs.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on reaction to a report showing that 40 percent of black men in California were under some sort of criminal justice control last year. The rate is four times that for Latinos and eight times the rate for white men. Some blame an unfair system, especially with higher penalties for crack cocaine offenses. Others say the numbers reflect who's committing the crimes.

Robert talks with Youssef Ibrahim (YOO-seff EE-brah-heem), a correspondent in the Paris bureau of the New York Times, about the return today of two senior Iraqis to Baghdad from Amman, Jordan. Hussein Kamel Hassan (hoo-SANE KAH-mel HAH-sahn), his brother Saddam Kamel and their wives, who are daughters of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, defected to Jordan last August. Hussein Kamel ran Iraq's secret military program and called for the overthrow of the Iraqi government. President Saddam Hussein today pardoned the brothers upon their return to Iraq.