Harry Reid: “I respectfully submit to this body my friend's statements regarding what the Senate did not do last year is a statement…”

“I respectfully submit to this body my friend's statements regarding what the Senate did not do last year is a statement made through a pair of glasses that obviously are very foggy. I say that because there is a lot of talk here about things that were not done. But the fact is the work that was left undone last year was left undone as a result of the President of the United States and the Republican-led House of Representatives not allowing us to move the appropriations bills. We passed 2 bills, leaving 11 undone. The House of Representatives simply refused to take votes on those very difficult bills. They knew if they took votes on those bills as they wanted them in the House of Representatives, it would create chaos among the people in the country because the people would know then that the Republicans simply were not meeting the demands of the American people. As a result of that, even though we passed every bill out of the Senate Appropriations Committee--all 13--we were not allowed to take them up.”