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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 summertime and school is out and people are planning their vacations. Most all the vacations are ones where people drive. They, of course, go visit relatives, they go to the beaches and the mountains where it is cool, barbecuing with…
We're going to be able to start this probably two weeks from tomorrow.
we have reached another tragic milestone in the Iraq war: 3,500 American troops have now been lost. Every one of those 3,500 is a hero. But every brave man and woman who continues to serve and protect us is a hero as well. This is a somber…
we have spent 2 weeks on the immigration bill, and we listened to hour after hour of debate. I don't think there is a single Senator, no matter how one may have finally voted on the motion to proceed or not to proceed to the bill, who…
Your job is not to convict people. It is to do the right thing for the people of the State of Nevada, the city of Henderson, NV. That is a lesson somebody should have given Alberto Gonzales before he took the job as Attorney General. Dan…
What this all boils down to is, the Republicans do not support their own president's bill.
Eighty percent of the Democrats support this immigration bill. We've done our job. I don't have to twist an arm, I don't have to pull anybody into a room to get them to try to agree to something. We've done our job -- 80 percent of the…
And the one fact I've learned I can't get out of my mind is that Rudy Giuliani has been married more times than Mitt Romney has been hunting.
It has been made graphically clear to me that the Republicans wanted more votes on their amendments. One problem: They objected to bringing up their own amendments. It makes it a little tough to vote on them. It is like having a basketball…
it has been now 2\1/2\ hours. We have tried every possible way of getting an amendment up to vote on it. We have tried this. We have tried that. We have tried this. We have tried that. We have tried everything. There are individuals who…
it is obvious we are not going to be able to complete the President's legislation based on the request of my friend from Alabama. I took math at Searchlight, NV, Elementary School, where 1 teacher taught all 8 grades, but I can still…
I am disappointed because, as I indicated, last year we had 14 votes postcloture. But I have learned a little bit about this place, that sometimes you have to do indirectly what you cannot do directly. It makes so much sense that, if…
we have worked long and hard on this piece of legislation. It is a very complicated bill, as it should be, because we have a complicated problem--that is immigration. We have come a long way since we started the debate on this matter. It…
I want the right tone set here. I don't want this to be an adversarial process. This is not a battle between Reid and McConnell. The votes show what happened. It doesn't take Einstein to figure that one out. Republicans didn't vote for…
I would only say to my friend, and those within the sound of my voice, I didn't come up with these amendments or the numbers. These were done by the Republicans and the floor staff of the Republicans, indicating the ones Senators had been…
in reading this morning's paper, I was reminded of the times I would read Dr. Seuss to my boys and my girl. In today's New York Times, Tom Friedman quotes Dr. Seuss as follows: Then he shut the Things in the box with the hook. And the cat…
This bill is something that the country needs. And the Senate needs to do this. I hope that we can figure out a way to do it.
This is a bill that will never, ever make a majority of the Republicans happy. It doesn't matter what we do.
we have tried to set up 20 votes in relation to amendments, including Democratic and Republican alternatives. We also tried to vitiate the need for a needless second cloture vote on the bill itself, if the substitute amendment is ever…
I will also state--and I am not as much of a poll watcher as my caucus would tell me I should be--that the polls also show the Republican Members of Congress are not as well thought of as Democratic Members of Congress. As far as success…
we are working in good faith to move this bill forward. We had seven rollcall votes before the recess and six additional amendments adopted by voice vote. That is 13. Yesterday, we adopted four more amendments by voice vote. Today, we had…
I attended, as Senator Ensign and I do every Memorial Day, a service at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery, which is located in Boulder City, NV. I am struck by two conversations I had. One was with a World War II veteran by…
one of the things in the bill we passed last night that was put in by the Democrats was $40 million to take care of some of the emergency issues in Kansas. That was the right thing to do. This legislation we are passing now will extend tax…
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