Energy Sec. Chu says before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that the Inspector General is investigating the issue of Solyndra layoffs being politically timed (March 8, 2012)

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement on the Senate floor Thursday regarding efforts by the President to lobby Democrat Senators against Senator Hoeven's amendment on the Keystone XL Pipeline: “Last night the two parties reached agreement on amendments to the Highway Bill. I’m happy to report

At the White House briefing today, FOX News' Ed Henry asked Jay Carney about Bill Maher's misogynistic language and his $1 million donation to Obama's Super PAC. Carney is asked if Obama will condemn Maher's language like he did with Rush Limbaugh and call on his Super PAC to return the money. Carney's response: Carney: I think the p

“But the notion that there is an equivalence between what a comedian has said over the course of his career and what the de facto leader of the Republican Party said to sexually degrade a woman who led in a political debate of our time, is crazy,” Bill Burton told MSNBC. “There’s no just similarity about what Rush Limbaugh said, lying about

O'BRIEN: A lot of law students read Derrick Bell. You really do not understand critical race theory, number one -- THOMAS: Can I say something as a white person? What are you frightened of? O'BRIEN: I don't know. THOMAS: Are you frightened that some black people are going to do something to you? You have a group of individuals -- if you an

Olbermann attacks the "House-tamed liberal" Kirsten Powers, while addressing the "false equivalency" of Rush Limbaugh to Bill Maher.

CNN's SAMBOLIN: And what do you think or how do you think that qualifies you to run for Congress? WURZELBACHER: What qualifies me -- one, I'm an American citizen. Two, you know, I'm very much involved in the process of what's going on. I guess my question would be, what qualifies the current politicians who are killing our country, Republican

"We need to test the proposition that the mounting pressure could indeed lead potentially to a negotiated diplomatic solution, which is the only way to end the program once and for all," US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" today. "For all the talk of military action, which we think at this stage still very premature,

CNN's Patrick Oppmann moves from Seattle to Havana, Cuba.

Federal Stimulus money went to hire foreign workers before Americans as KVAL-TV (Eugene, OR) reports. Reportedly, four companies in Oregon used nearly $7 million in taxpayer-funded stimulus money for a job that hired 250 foreign workers. The companies were able to exploit a loophole that allowed them to hire workers using the H-2B visa system.

Daily Show: For Republicans, Super Tuesday was supposed to be the decisive shot heard 'round the world, but now it's the shot that was mathematically inconclusive. (09:24)

The panel discusses the delegate math in the GOP race.

Liberal radio host Randi Rhodes on FOX News' Megyn Kelly and conservative commentator Monica Crowley: Randi Rhodes: You know, these women, someone needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly. They have no right to them. They are fabulous little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Just cut t

Mark Levin Show, March 7, 2012.

Bill Burton, co-founder and senior strategist of Priorities USA Action: “People think that Santorum and Gingrich’s campaigns wouldn’t have survived up until this point without super PACs, but the truth is, Mitt Romney wouldn’t even still be in this race if it weren’t for his super PAC.”

Stephanopoulos to Bill O'Reilly: "You know, I should also add we didn't do all that much on this. I think we did a minute and a half piece on Friday morning and another follow up on Monday morning. And that was it. No guests. We didn't obsess over this in any way, shape or form. We pretty much covered what was going on."

Chris Matthews, Major Garrett and Chuck Todd talk about Tuesday's election results. Chris Matthews compares the audience behind Romney to North Korean propaganda. Major Garrett criticizes him for it.

Mitt Romney: "One thing I can tell you for sure, there’s not going to be a brokered convention, where some new person comes in and becomes the nominee. It’s going to be one of the four people that are still running."

Ed Schultz, Bob Shrum and Sam Stein discuss the Super Tuesday results. Shrum predicts Romney will lose the 2012 election and the GOP will nominated an extremely conservative nominee in 2016.

Bill O'Reilly reviews the results of Super Tuesday and looks at the contests ahead. O'Reilly predicts Romney will win the GOP nomination in June.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews sits down with David Axelrod, the Obama campaign’s senior strategist, in Chicago to talk about the President’s fight for a second term and the Obama campaign’s perspective on the primary races so far.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: "I want to see hard core Republican conservatism put up there on a debate stage with President Obama's practical approach to governing, and I want to see hard core Republican conservatism crushed because it represents a minority view in our politics. And if it gets crushed that way, then the Republican party is going to