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President Bush sends Congress a 2004 budget totaling $2.23 trillion, with the largest increases going to defense and homeland security. The budget assumes a new round of tax cuts, but doesn't account for a possible Iraq war. The proposal also includes the largest deficit in America's history -- more than $300 billion. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), chairman of the House Science Committee. He will chair the House investigation into the shuttle Columbia disaster.

In state elections, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats suffer their worst defeat in more than 50 years. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR’s Larry Abramson about the details emerging from the latest NASA briefing on the space shuttle Columbia disaster.

NPR's Neda Ulaby has a profile of painter Dan Keplinger. Keplinger has cerebral palsy and was featured in the 1999 Oscar-winning documentary short, King Gimp. Although it's difficult for him to control his movements or speak, he's had several successful shows in New York, and he's completing his second college degree at Towson State University, Md.

Host Michele Norris talks with NPR's Debbie Elliott from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, where an independent board appointed by NASA began its investigation of the shuttle disaster today. Debris from Columbia will be taken to the base for scrutiny.

He reviews Crazy: The Demo Sessions (Sugar Hill records), a collection of songs Willie Nelson wrote and recorded between 1960 and 1966, hoping to sell them to the big stars of the country era.

Dan Keplinger was born with severe cerebral palsy. But at 30, he's already a successful artist, the subject of an Oscar-winning film, and he's finishing his second college degree. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on the Baltimore, Md., artist's inspirational story. View a video clip from the documentary, and view examples of his art.

Robert talks with William Greider, national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine, about the economics of President Bush's budget proposal.

Robert talks with Jim Hall, former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, about NASA's decision to use the NTSB model to figure out why the Columbia broke up on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

NPR's Eric Niiler reports on the process of identifying the remains of the seven astronauts aboard the Columbia space shuttle. NASA will identify the bodies using dental records, blood type, fingerprints and, perhaps, DNA.

Thousands of doctors walked off the job in New Jersey today. Nancy Solomon reports the doctors are protesting the escalating cost of malpractice insurance. The doctors and the insurance industry are calling for a cap on damages paid to patients who sue over shoddy treatment.