Harry Reid: “If, in fact, the time were yielded back, what would be the first vote in sequence? The PRESIDING OFFICER. A sequence has…”

I have been for statehood for D.C. forever. And how can we, as a country, have the federal enclave treated differently than the other 50 states? It’s not -- it’s not right.

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.

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

his party should not hold back on an ambitious agenda.