Partisanship and ideology have been a part of American democracy since our beginning, but our forefathers did not let their competing partisan loyalties... prevent them from reaching the kind of compromises that were so central to the formation of our country.
Reid emphasized the importance of compromise in American democracy.
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He has no regrets. He says he had to do it to save Obama’s presidency because of what the Republicans were doing to obstruct the president’s confirmation of judges and other legislative things.
The portraits of Senator Harry Reid and Senator Ted Stevens are the first additions to the leadership series since 2011.
Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.
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