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Harry Reid: “It doesn't take a person with a PhD to understand that I differ with what my friend, the senior Senator from Kentucky…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2010
It doesn't take a person with a PhD to understand that I differ with what my friend, the senior Senator from Kentucky, said, things that don't indicate what history is in the Senate. We have been facing 87 filibusters this Congress. For anyone to suggest that the reason the work of Senators Inouye and Cochran was not completed is because we didn't do the appropriations bills is farfetched. Senators Inouye and Cochran, in good faith, worked toward what they were told the Democrats and Republicans wanted to do; that is, have a bill that took in the priorities of Democrats and Republicans. The bill that we are talking about isn't a bill that is a Democratic bill. It is a Democratic and Republican bill.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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Dec 16, 2010

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Senator Reid addresses the challenges faced in passing bipartisan legislation amid numerous filibusters.

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