Harry Reid: “I know my veterans in Nevada would understand because a lot of the work we are doing is directly related to them anyway.”

The Republican Party that we now have is not the Republican Party of John Chafee, Mark Hatfield, those people who were really stalwarts in moving the country forward.

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

I have been for statehood for D.C. forever. And how can we, as a country, have the federal enclave treated differently than the other 50 states? It’s not -- it’s not right.

I have to win 50 plus one.