(the) President-elect reiterated his promise to work with me to prevent the dump from ever being built. The first step is to make even deeper budget cuts this year than I have already been able to make in the past. Yucca Mountain was a dangerous proposition from the start and I am very pleased that President-elect Obama shares my commitment to come up with a more responsible solution to our nation's nuclear waste challenges.
Reid emphasizes opposition to Yucca Mountain and commitment to find better nuclear waste solutions.
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Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.
Get rid of the filibuster, is nothing that as Brock Obama said, at John Lewis` funeral, it’s part of the leftovers from the days of the slave owners. You got to get rid of it. It’s very, very bad.
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.
The portraits of Senator Harry Reid and Senator Ted Stevens are the first additions to the leadership series since 2011.
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