CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It’s a dagger in the heart of a bill that has succeeded, whose time has come and gone. The conditions, as the Chief Justice wrote, are radically different. In five of the six states, the original southern states to whom all of this was applied, the rates of voting among blacks is higher than it is among whites. This is a

BARACK OBAMA: Americans are not a people who look backwards; we're a people who look forward. We're not a people who fear what the future holds; we shape it. What we need in this fight are citizens who will stand up, and speak up, and compel us to do what this moment demands. Understand this is not just a job for politicians. So I'm going to

RAND PAUL (@6:00): "We have an African-American president. African-Americans are voting at a higher percentage in the last election than whites. There doesn't seem to be any sort of systemic problem like there was in the South with precluding blacks from voting. So we're at a point in time in our history where the color of your skin should not be t

The 11 million people living in America without the proper documentation are particularly vulnerable to abuse by unscrupulous employers. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) points out the bipartisan immigration reform bill in the Senate can help put an end to this.

SEN. JOE MANCHIN (D-WV): "It is going to be a killer of jobs, but bottom line, the EIA (Energy Information Administration) basically says they’re depending upon coal well up until 2040... Why do you want to shoot yourself in both feet and then try to run the marathon tomorrow?"

Senator Mitch McConnell spoke on the Senate floor regarding the need for the President to focus on common-sense policies to make energy cleaner and more affordable, not a national energy tax and a 'war on coal' that would hinder economic growth. MITCH MCCONNELL: “Declaring a ‘War on Coal’ is tantamount to declaring a war on job

Vice President Biden speaks on today's Supreme Court's decision that invalidates a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, and decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent. "Like so many across the country, I’m disappointed in the Sup

PRESIDENT OBAMA: We've got to move beyond partisan politics on this issue. I want to be clear -- I am willing to work with anybody --- Republicans, Democrats, independents, libertarians, greens --- anybody -- to combat this threat on behalf of our kids. I am open to all sorts of new ideas, maybe better ideas, to make sure that we deal with climate

Charles Krauthammer, Juan Williams, and Jason Riley react to the floor debate and voting on immigration on the Senate floor.

The Republican Party released this web ad Tuesday slamming government spending under President Obama.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sounds off on Senate's vote on the immigration reform bill, concern that it will die in the House and the new revelations about the iRS scandal

Laura Ingraham: The GOP will continue infuriating its own base and affirmatively hurting the wage earning prospects for American workers with this toxic immigration bill. You know, I don't see how the GOP coalition can really continue on this path because the priorities of the working people are either ignored all together or they are being open

"This bill is not designed to fix the problem. If this bill got passed into law, I guarantee in another 10, 20 years we’d be back here, except instead of 11 million people here illegally, we’d have 20 million or 30 million. And that is not a humane system," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on the Monday night broadcast of FOX News' "Hannity." "I

Rachel Maddow reports on the pitched battle over abortion rights in Texas as state Republicans push through radical new restrictions that will make health care inaccessible to millions of American women, as GOP defense of the bill exposes underlying scientific ignorance.

PIERS MORGAN: Edward Snowden has said, 'I've committed a serious crime,' the newspaper has put this out there. Surely he [Glenn Greenwald] should be prepared to answer questions about whether anything they have done -- in cahoots with this guy, we don't know how far he goes -- anything they've done borders on criminality. I think it's a perfectly r

The Center for American Progress’ Neera Tanden and The Heritage Foundation’s Nick Loris join The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd to explain the politics on both sides of the aisle behind climate legislation.