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Harry Reid is a former United States Senator from Nevada, serving from 1987 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Reid held the position of Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015, making him one of the most powerful figures in the Senate during his tenure. He was known for his leadership on various issues, including healthcare reform and economic recovery efforts following the 2008 financial crisis. Reid played a significant role in passing the Affordable Care Act and was a strong advocate for renewable energy and land conservation in Nevada.
It is 20 percent more than my statistics indicate, and I am sure the Senator is right. For the majority of those women, that is the majority of the money they get for themselves and their family. Do they depend on that totally, is what I…
I have an amendment also for the Senators from Utah, Idaho, and Nevada dealing with the problem that I talked to the Senator from Alaska about. Crickets have eaten up parts of their States.
The Senator is aware, is he not, the reason terrorism insurance was held up for so long is that Republicans wanted absolute tort reform, everything involving medical malpractice, slips and falls, rear-end automobile accidents--everything…
In Nevada, the Governor, Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn, called a special session of the Nevada Legislature to address this problem which was created by one insurance company that decided to take a powder when the stock market fell... It is…
As I listen to the Senator today--and I am aware of what the Senator talked about yesterday--is the Senator saying he is not opposed to our doing something regarding medical malpractice?
It is also true, is it not, I say to the Senator from Illinois, that the two studies of the Weiss and the General Accounting Office are not studies that have been paid for, were involved with or directed by attorneys? Is that a fair…
It is unacceptable that in a country as wealthy as ours seniors across the country are struggling to afford the high cost of prescription drugs. I have supported adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare because I believe no…
The Boxer amendment is very simple. It says if a person is receiving cancer drugs and they come to a period of time--as this bill is written--where they run out of the ability to get help from the Medicare Program, that they, in effect…
Senator Bingaman and I worked for a number of years to try to create within the Department of Education an education czar because children who drop out of school are never what they could be. We have so many students dropping out of…
We not only have statements that would fill volumes about how bad the deficit was. And, in fact, I can remember Alan Greenspan telling us the most important thing we could do--he appeared before the Appropriations Committee--was get rid of…
I respond to my friend there is some dispute as to what the 10-year surplus was when he took office. Some say $7.1 trillion. Some say 6.2. But trillions of dollars over 10 years. And in fact, the last 3 years of the Clinton administration…
The debt this year will be the largest in the history of the world, not only the United States.
My friend is right. The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that national unemployment had increased in April to more than 6 percent, highest unemployment in 106 months.
As we all knew yesterday, the problem with not having amendments was that CBO had not completed scoring on the Medicare bill. It is my understanding there is scoring on the bill and Senators Grassley and Baucus will offer either some…
We have places, such as at McCarran Airport, where, if we had additional help, we could move people into the airport more quickly but we simply don't have the TSA people to do that. We have some of our hub airports where, as the Senator…
It is also true that all this furor created with changing the rules and all this involves two judges whom the Democrats have prevented from coming to a vote; namely, Miguel Estrada and Priscilla Owen. So the count is 128 to 2. Is that a…
The State of Nevada has two large metropolitan areas, Reno and Las Vegas, but most of the State population is in small towns-- Mesquite, Ely, Hawthorne, Battle Mountain, Tonopah--places that have no managed care. If we change Medicare…
Does the Senator think many Senators will go to this group of people who make from $10,000 to $26,000 a year for campaign contributions?
The Senator is also aware of people like Warren Buffett who said: I am going to get hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of this tax bill. I don't want the money. I don't need the money. I won't invest the money. You have heard him…
Right out these doors and various other places in the Capitol, there are lobbyists, lobbyists who represent interests. Did the Senator run into any lobbyists during consideration of the tax bill, the people wearing the Gucci shoes…
I wonder, does the Senator think any parents of these kids earning $10,000 to $26,000 a year, do they benefit from the cut in dividend payments from corporations? Do you think they benefit much from that, which was in the final version of…
I ask my friend from Wisconsin: Does he think it would be a good idea to ask the House leadership to call on Governor Ridge to send all the airplanes he has available to see if they can return?
We would be willing to enter into a time agreement if we saw the amendments and they were reasonable and we thought we could do that. But not having them, we can't do that. The Senator from Washington, if there would have been an…
I say to my most distinguished friend, I said in my statement, this applies to Democrats and Republicans.
Is the Senator aware that we have been told by them that the rulings that have been made on this bill have been a surprise to even them, in the many, many years they have served in the Senate? The new--I am talking about new in the last…
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