Harry Reid: “I say to my friend, the senior Senator from North Dakota, that you have made an interesting and I think a compelling…”

“I say to my friend, the senior Senator from North Dakota, that you have made an interesting and I think a compelling case how things have improved during the past 4 years, from lower Federal employment, to higher private-sector employment, millions of new jobs, 10 million new jobs created, the lowest poverty levels in 27 years. But I would like to ask the Senator a question. Do you realize in the State of Nevada--this is not on the overall economy of this country-- but in the State of Nevada, which is a State sparsely populated but growing, the most rapidly growing State in the Union, do you realize that the unemployment rate in Nevada has declined from almost 7.5 percent when President Clinton took office now to about 5 percent? Were you aware of that?”