Harry Reid said "I have been faithfully attending to my duties here in the Senate the last 3 weeks. Frankly, we have not been doing anything. We have been playing here on the gas tax, minimum wage, and something called the TEAM Act. What, all of a sudden, when we finally have something we can work on that is substantive --what is the rush? Why, suddenly, are we going to work like we have not been working before? Is there some reason suddenly we have to work on these very weighty issues into the middle of the night and on weekends?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMay 16, 1996

I have been faithfully attending to my duties here in the Senate the last 3 weeks. Frankly, we have not been doing anything. We have been playing here on the gas tax, minimum wage, and something called the TEAM Act. What, all of a sudden, when we finally have something we can work on that is substantive --what is the rush? Why, suddenly, are we going to work like we have not been working before? Is there some reason suddenly we have to work on these very weighty issues into the middle of the night and on weekends?

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Harry Reid

Democratic · Nevada

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Editor's note · Context

Questioning the urgency of Senate work on substantive issues during a debate.

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