Harry Reid: “Las Vegas has two daily newspapers. One is the Las Vegas Daily Journal; The other is the Las Vegas Sun. I was very…”

“Las Vegas has two daily newspapers. One is the Las Vegas Daily Journal; The other is the Las Vegas Sun. I was very impressed with the editorial in the Las Vegas Sun newspaper yesterday. The newspaper is a relatively new newspaper by American standards. It is 40, 50 years old. It was started by an entrepreneur by the name of Hank Greenspun who was a real pioneer in Las Vegas. He developed a newspaper that was feisty. It was a newspaper that took on Senator McCarthy before it was fashionable to do so. He took on the gaming interests when it was a very small newspaper and won an antitrust suit against them for their failing to advertise and they, in fact, boycotted his newspaper. So I give this background to indicate it is a great newspaper. It was. It still is. The editorial they wrote yesterday can be paraphrased but not very well. It is a short editorial. I will read the editorial into the Record. It is entitled ``Patient rights get some life.'' The subtitles say: The Senate is expected to take up this week a patient's bill of rights. They have under that: Our take: It is unfortunate that so far President Bush opposes the Democratic plan, which also is favored by some Republicans, that finally would make HMOs accountable. The editorial begins as follows: [From the Las Vegas Daily Journal, June 18, 2001] President Bush's campaign pledge to be ``a uniter, not a divider'' has been a bust in the early going of this administration.…”