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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.
We had a cutoff time last night of 5 o'clock for filing amendments on the education bill. We have almost 300 amendments that have been filed on S. 1. It is going to take a lot of work, and people are going to have to work this afternoon on…
If a teacher spanks, beats--whatever the term we want to use--a student, he is doing that under the confines, and under the direction of the State law, in effect. What we want to say is that any acts of teachers that are negligent that do…
The problem with that--I will be happy to share the amendment with the Senator, and I am confident and hopeful he will approve it--is the fact that the amendment offered by the Senator from Kentucky, as I understand it, said basically that…
Is it true that one reason school districts all over America are just scavenging for money, desperate for money, is the necessity that we all accept of educating these children? Is that true?
So this amendment is to allow school districts to use the money they have on programs that are not mandated by the Federal Government. They can use the money that we hope will come from this amendment to take care of the disadvantaged…
Well, I look forward to supporting the amendment. Again, in this 50/50 split Senate, I look forward to voting for this bipartisan amendment on this important issue.
I will ask one final question to the Senator from New York. We know that there has been talk from the other side saying throwing money at the problem doesn't solve anything. The Senator from New York realizes that. But would the Senator…
We believe, on this side on the substantive issues, everybody is almost there. It appears the only difference we have is with the dollar numbers. The motion to proceed will be agreed to overwhelmingly anyway. It seems to me it will set the…
I agree with the chairman. I hope that this section will provide an additional tool for addressing abandoned petroleum sites. The bill includes mechanisms to allow us to evaluate how this and other provisions of the bill are working, and…
I will withdraw my objection, but I again state to those assembled that it is absolutely wrong that we are going to spend all day today in morning business when we have waiting legislation that affects people in the State of Nevada. We…
We have had 154 amendments. We are never going to end this thing unless people cooperate a little bit. If the other side is worried about us getting out of here tomorrow, they had better start cooperating a little bit. There is no need to…
Today, this week, is when students all over America are going to get notices in the mail as to where they are going to be able to go to school. Does the Senator agree that many students who are admitted to some schools are not going to be…
I think the Senator has clearly said that a child's ability to be educated should not be dependent on how much money their parents have.
Will the Senator indicate why he put his $2.7 trillion across from non-Social Security and non-Medicare? Why is that in red?
As I understand what the Senator from North Dakota has been advocating, if, in fact, we have a surplus--and thank goodness we do have a surplus--one-third of that should be applied toward reducing the debt, one-third should be used to give…
I believe there is no one in Congress who knows numbers better than the Senator from North Dakota on the Budget Committee--is if we pass the budget that is now before this body as it is written, the public debt will go up and not down. Is…
In relation to the question asked by the Senator from Oregon, the Smith amendment is the first amendment that will be called up. Someone could move to table that amendment. I am sure the Senator understood that.
If I could say to my friend, it was just brought to my attention that there could be some parliamentary move, for example, to table the Smith amendment and that, of course, would not be in keeping with what the Senator just said. The…
If I may say to my friend from Alaska, if there is a problem with it, let's go ahead and get it done. If there is a problem, I will be happy to join with him to go ahead and rescind the unanimous consent request.
Just for the sake of Senators waiting around, does the Senator believe it will take an hour, hour and a half, 2 minutes, 3 minutes?
I am not trying to cut back anybody's time. Does the Senator from California have an idea as to how much time she may take this evening?
Will the Senator from Alaska yield for some parliamentary business for a second without losing his right to the floor?
I do not want him to lose the floor. I say to my friend from Utah, my friend from Vermont, and my friend from New York, I do not know where we got into the idea that we are going to have an amendment offered to Senator Schumer's amendment…
One of the points the Senator from Illinois made during his initial statement was that he believes it is time we had a bipartisan agreement on the budget and on taxes generally. I heard the Senator say--and I am commenting on the comment…
One of the problems I have had during the past 6 months or so is that we have heard from the man running for President, and now President, always bad news about the economy, always something negative about the economy. There are some…
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