JUDY WOODRUFF: Good segue. We watched this drama play out this week, David, in Congress, which ended up in the Senate with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas essentially hanging some of his fellow Republicans out to dry. What was he trying to accomplish, and did he — did he do it? DAVID BROOKS: Nothing says Valentine’s Day like Senator Ted Cruz, o

Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, Mort Zuckerman and Guy Taylor.

SEN. RAND PAUL: I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime for the presidency unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation, not a little tweaking at the edges.

BILL MAHER: What have you printed about Woody Allen? (jokingly) JEREMY SCAHILL, JOURNALIST: Bill, unless Woody Allen is somehow tapped into your SIM card or your cell phone, we probably aren't going to cover the Woody Allen story. MAHER: Let's not get into what he's tapped into. Okay. SCAHILL: I should have seen that coming. MAHER: I --

BILL MAHER: I guess this is tied to Valentines Day. Facebook, did you see this, announced they are now offering on your profile page, 50 different gender options? 50? I mean, I think of myself as kind of a liberal guy, you know? I get straight, gay, bi, transgender… I'm out. 50? Okay, so some of them, they list. Intersex? Bigender? Gender-flu

White House: This week, President Obama took action to lift more workers’ wages by requiring that federal contractors pay their employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour. In this week’s address, he highlights that executive action and calls on Congress to pass a bill to raise the federal minimum wage for all workers. PRESI

GOP: In this week’s Republican address, Rep. Tom Rooney of Florida uses this week's Republican address to share stories about seniors in his district who he says have been impacted, in some ways, negatively by the Affordable Care Act. Urging the president to act on these issues, Rooney says seniors will continue to lose health plan options if so