Harry Reid: “I very much appreciate our leadership laying out the problem. Yesterday, instead of the FBI losing the number of agents…”

“I very much appreciate our leadership laying out the problem. Yesterday, instead of the FBI losing the number of agents it is losing today, 1,175 agents, it was 800. Each day, more FBI agents are lost because of this ridiculous procedure we are going through. For my friend, and he is my friend, the Senator from Alaska, who I care a great deal about--I have served with him all my time in the Senate on the Appropriations Committee--for him to say we are funding election reform out of this, is that not good? It is money they are stealing from other accounts. Next, are they going to take care of prescription drugs by cutting off domestic discretionary spending? Anyone who votes against Senator Byrd today is voting against the FBI, literally; 1,175 FBI agents will be eliminated.”