Harry Reid: “I say again through the Chair to my friend, how many amendments does he think he would need?”

He has no regrets. He says he had to do it to save Obama’s presidency because of what the Republicans were doing to obstruct the president’s confirmation of judges and other legislative things.

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

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.