On Tuesday, Rep. Eric Cantor delivered a speech the American Enterprise Institute entitled "Make Life Work," aimed at broadening the appeal of the Republican Party beyond the image of budget cutting. Read More

Obama proposed a short-term solution during a press conference at the White House, warning “we can’t cut our way to prosperity.” The president described the sequester as a "harmful" and "self-inflicted wound" at the hand of lawmakers that would do more harm than good to the economy. Read More

The White House is amping up pressure on lawmakers to move forward with tougher legislation on gun control. Read More

The GOP establishment is officially trying to take back the reigns from bat-crap crazy members of its party. Plus, find out about more stories shaping tonight's rundown. Read More

The top Democrat in the Senate expects Congress to pass a sweeping immigration reform bill, despite any GOP hold-outs. Read More

The Obama administration proposed another compromise over the birth control mandate: women still get access, but religious groups don't need to be involved. Read More

Gov. Deval Patrick joined The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to talk about his choice for interim senator from Mass. And he had some props for The Last Word host. Read More

The gun advocate said banning “scary-looking" assault weapons puts women at a "great disadvantage" fending off violent male attackers. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell challenged her on that claim. Read More

The Last Word host Lawrence O'Donnell slammed the “gun-worshiping fanatics" who dared to heckle a grieving parent for posing a serious question on gun control. Read More

President Obama made an aggressive case for an immediate overhaul of U.S. immigration laws during a speech in Las Vegas, giving momentum to the Senate's new bipartisan push towards reform. Read More

In his Rewrite segment, O’Donnell gave one giant I-told-you-so to pundits who took the former Alaska governor seriously as a contender for president. Read More

With a lost Senate bid behind him, Scott Brown had time to feed the Twitter trolls. #Bqhatevwr, he's probably not running in the Massachusetts special election. Read More

GOP mega donor Foster "aspirin-between-their-knees" Friess resurfaced with a message for Playboy founder Hugh Hefner: "Contraception’s been very, very good to me." Read More

In our special edition of The Last Word, we'll go deep on the budget and the so-called filibuster reform deal. And we can't not talk about Beyoncé at the inauguration. Read More

The Senate is taking a go-slow approach to fixing the filibustering, disappointing progressives who are pushing for real reform. Read More

At his confirmation hearing to become the next secretary of state, Kerry picked up where Hillary Clinton left off after being confronted by a Tea Party senator. Read More

The Obama administration welcomed the key passage of a bill through the House of Representative on Wednesday to temporarily suspend the nation’s debt ceiling. Read More

Lots of action on Capitol Hill: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's testified before Congress over the Benghazi attack and the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote on "suspending" the debt ceiling. Read More

President Obama’s unabashedly progressive second inaugural address sent conservatives into a tailspin. Having blocked his agenda for four years, they now criticize him for a speech that failed to reach out to the right. Read More

While the Internet remains fixated on the photographic stylings of the Obama girls and the first lady’s dress (she wore Jason Wu), the inaugural ceremonies started to wind down with a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral this morning. Read More