Harry Reid: “Following leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business until 2 p.m. today. The Republicans will…”

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

I didn’t have success because of my good looks, or because I was a genius. I had success because I worked harder than anybody else.

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.