Harry Reid: “we have completed our difficult week, but we were able to complete the energy bill. I remind everybody that last night I…”

“we have completed our difficult week, but we were able to complete the energy bill. I remind everybody that last night I proffered, on behalf of the majority, efforts to move forward with hate crimes legislation. That was objected to: And also the terrorism legislation, which was objected to. We will renew the requests next week. We believe the time has long since passed that we should have hate crimes legislation that becomes law in this country. Certainly, with all we have heard from the insurance industry, the real estate industry, and the financial industry around this country, it is high time we did something with the terrorism insurance that they have indicated is so badly needed. So we would be ready next week to move forward on that. I am disappointed that we do not already have an agreement that would allow us to move on that next week. It is certainly something that should be done. The majority leader has, in the past month or so, been able to do dual-track legislation. As a result, we were able to get some action taken. During the time we were doing the energy bill, we passed the border security legislation. We also passed the election reform legislation while we were working on the energy bill. So the mere fact that we are going to the trade bill should not, in any way, stop us from beginning and completing work on hate crimes legislation and certainly the terrorism legislation.”