Harry Reid: “I think prior to this vote, we should have time to talk about it. The hour is set aside for morning business?”

Get rid of the filibuster. It’s nothing. As Barack Obama said at John Lewis’ funeral, it’s part of the leftovers from the days of slave owners. You have got to get rid of it. It’s very bad.

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

The portraits of Senator Harry Reid and Senator Ted Stevens are the first additions to the leadership series since 2011.

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.