Harry Reid: “I have used this illustration on other occasions--I hope not too many, but I know I have used it before--and the reason…”

“I have used this illustration on other occasions--I hope not too many, but I know I have used it before--and the reason I do it is, for me, it is illustrative of what is taking place in the Senate. When I was a little boy, I lived in a small town in southern Nevada. I had a brother who was 10 or 12 years older than I, and he got a job with Standard Stations one summer. That was a big deal for us. He was out of high school, and they transferred him to Las Vegas to be an assistant manager to a service station in Ask Fork, AZ. As a little boy, I never traveled anyplace, and he agreed to take his little brother to Ask Fork, AZ. Oh, I was excited about going there. I do not know how long he spent there, probably about a week or 10 days, but just the anticipation of the trip was really amazing because I had never been anyplace. So I went to Ask Fork, AZ. It was a little railroad town in Arizona, very large compared to where I was raised, in Searchlight. When I arrived there, I learned my brother had a girlfriend. I thought he was going to be taking me every place, but he did not take me anyplace because he had this girl with whom he was involved. He did take me to meet her little brother, who was about my age. So I spent a lot of time with him. I have never forgotten that because it was his house and they were his games and his equipment. Every game we started to play, I could beat him; it did not matter what it was.…”