Tonight's guests:
- Congressman G. K. Butterfield, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus
- Eddie Gutierrez, master News Dump gamesman
Tonight's links:
House fails to pass temporary funding plan for Homeland Security
House Approves Homeland Security Budget, Without Strings
House GOP pulls abortion bill after revolt
House Republican leaders scrap education vote
Stephanie Grace: Scalise’s pitch to Duke supporters seems plausible
What Scalise and Vitter Told Roll Call About David Duke in 1999
House Majority Whip Scalise confirms he spoke to white supremacists in 2002
Rep. Steve Scalise: I might have attended white supremacist event
Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana Acknowledges Addressing Racist Group in 2002
GOP leaders to skip Selma event
Supreme Court guts key part of landmark Voting Rights Act
UPDATE: FRA predicts explosions as railcar allowed to burn
Industries lobby hard to shape new oil train regulations
Workers rejoice: February hiring was huge with 295,000 jobs created
A winter break: 295,000 more jobs in Feb.
U.S. economy added 295,000 jobs in February
Solid U.S. jobs report; unemployment rate at 5.5%
Jobs boom continues, unemployment falls
Letter from Jack Lew asking John Boehner not to let the debt limit deadline lapse (pdf)
Solid U.S. jobs report: 295,000 jobs added; rate at 5.5%
Fox News forced to backtrack again over Bill O'Reilly's reporting claims
Two Former Colleagues Dispute O'Reilly's JFK Story
The O'Reilly tapes: Phone recordings raise new questions about JFK story
Bill O’Reilly and Fox News Redouble Defense of His Falklands Reporting
Latest Challenges: Was Bill O'Reilly witness to Nun killings, Dallas Suicide or N Ireland Bombings?
Maddow Uses O’Reilly to Demonstrate Everything That’s Wrong with Cable News
Alabama Supreme Court orders halt to same-sex marriages
Idaho lawmaker asks if woman can swallow camera for gynecological exam before medical abortion