Harry Reid: “I would ask the Senator from Illinois and the chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense to respond.”

The portraits of Senator Harry Reid and Senator Ted Stevens are the first additions to the leadership series since 2011.

Get rid of the filibuster. It’s nothing. As Barack Obama said at John Lewis’ funeral, it’s part of the leftovers from the days of slave owners. You have got to get rid of it. It’s very bad.

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.

Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.