Harry Reid: “They are that far away.”

There’s no state in the union that needs more help than West Virginia. And, in my opinion, Joe Manchin is hurting his own state. The state of West Virginia would benefit so greatly with infrastructure. It’s the poorest state in the union…

real value . . . not in producing or selling the [set-top] box but in the data that the box will collect.

Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.

But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.