Harry Reid: “I see here two friends on the Republican side who wish to speak. Senator Alexander wishes to speak, I understand, as…”

I have to win 50 plus one.

Never in the history of the country, never in the history of the country have we produced more for a president and somebody that’s led his party than we’ve done together.

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

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.