Harry Reid

One last question: In the western part of the United States--and it is coming back here--there is the high cost of purchasing electricity in the home. I have received a number of very sad letters--for lack of a better description--from…

During my career, I have never known anybody who has a better grasp of finances than Kent Conrad. He not only understands them, but he can articulate them. I speak for the entire Democratic caucus, and I think most Republicans, in…

I had one problem with the bill that dealt with something that was offered on the floor by Senator Schumer and me dealing with clinic violence. It went to conference. They stripped it, even though it passed here by an extremely wide…

I ask permission to join as a cosponsor of this most important legislation. It appears to be bipartisan. We have the two leading Democrats on the Education Committee plus Republicans. It should be a bill that we can pass.

The Senate is getting a lot of important work done. The more we can work without having a lot of quorums, the better off we are. The time for morning business has been used well. I think we had even the beginnings of a good debate on the…

As I said this morning, we want to try to wrap up this debate in the near future. I know how fervently the Senator from Alabama feels about this issue, but I do say every time someone says something, we are not going to finish this debate…

Also we have had experience working with Mrs. Chao before. She is a good administrator. She has been good to the State of Nevada in the past. I look forward to working with her as Secretary of Labor. I am sure she will do a good job.

So, as I hear what the Senator is saying, what he is afraid of is they are trying to use, now, the surpluses from Medicare to spend for other programs. Is that what the Senator is afraid of?

People in the State of Nevada in 1985 had a tie in the Nevada State Assembly, equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans. It was one of the most productive sessions in the history of the Nevada Legislature. Evan Bayh, when he was Governor…

The people who met yesterday with the President-elect in Texas, these rich people--and I have nothing against rich people; I am happy he is meeting with them--I hope some of them realize the biggest tax cut anyone will ever get in their…

The biggest tax cut this country could get is reducing the $5 trillion debt we have. Will the Senator agree?

We have a new Member of the Senate today--she was sworn in yesterday--Maria Cantwell from the State of Washington. She was a freshman Member of the House of Representatives, and she, with courage, walked up and voted for that Clinton…

I appreciate my friend's courage and leadership on these fiscal issues. He has the ability, because of his experience, to see what is going to happen in the future, to be a little ahead of most everyone around here on these financial…

I say to my friend, I am sure of one thing it does mean regarding the statistic regarding the car that looks like a hot dog: The fact that there are a lot of people with a college education who can't find work.

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We have 13 appropriations bills. This debate cannot relate around one appropriations bill. The Senator from Pennsylvania worked hard on the Labor-HHS appropriations bill. A number of us have worked on it. But the Republicans have left this…

First of all, I certainly understand the frustration of the Senator from Pennsylvania. He does a good job of chairing that subcommittee. But his facts are wrong. Here it is 9 days until the election, and we are still in session. We are…

I do know that even in biblical times, when the ox was in the mire on the Sabbath, you had to help get that animal out of the mud. I think that is what we are in now. It may be necessary that we work on Sunday; We have so many things left…

One more question I will ask the Senator from Oregon: Then the people of Nevada, no matter how they feel about the substance of the legislation that passed in the State of Oregon, should be warned by me and others that if this piece of…

I have a question. This question comes from the people of the State of Nevada. It is my understanding that if this provision of this tax bill passes, a vote that was taken in the State of Oregon, open to everyone in the State of Oregon…

I am happy, until 3:15, to work out time agreements so people are not standing around. But the way it now appears, it is going to be a little unbalanced. We should rotate time wise, not necessarily who is speaking but how much time. We…

The Senator remembers that the Senator from California and I sponsored our own constitutional amendment to balance the budget. Does she remember that? We wanted to exclude the surpluses from Social Security, but they wouldn't vote with us.

He recognizes that the business community needs direction to try to do that. There has been nobody in the Senate that has been more for the working men and women of this country than Frank Lautenberg. When he speaks on an economic issue…

I am sorry I didn't mention that he is a Republican pollster. He scripts them. They are saying the Republican majority has put this economy on the road to recovery even though not a single one of them had the nerve to vote with the…

The Senator knows that a majority of those jobs are high-wage jobs. As far as the deficit they talked about--how this deficit was going to be exploding--$300 billion a year in deficit, and it was masked because there was about $100 billion…