Harry Reid: “The Protecting America's Workers Act is a powerful tool to allow families to have a say in investigations.”

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.

I have to win 50 plus one.

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