Harry Reid

The surge is not working. No matter how many different ways you explain it, it hasn't worked -- six months, 600 dead Americans, $60 billion.

This may happen as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gets ready to launch debate on a series of amendments to the 2008 defense budget dealing with Iraq.

I think we will find, in the next couple of weeks, whether the Republicans who have said publicly they think the president's course should change are willing to vote with us. We invite them to come with us. We put our arms around them.

This is the Defense authorization bill. I hope there will be a little conversation about this tomorrow. This will get us back and focusing on the intractable war that is taking place in Iraq. I made a call a day or two ago to speak to…

It goes without saying I am disappointed that the two issues we have had to do--so important--ethics and lobbying reform and the 9/11 Commission recommendations implementation--that there have been objections. All kinds of reasons, but it…

I say to Senator Coburn, I received a note. This is from Senator Lieberman's staff: We have worked very close with Senator Coburn's staff--in particular his subcommittee staff director--Katie French. Coburn's provisions were included in S…

The 9/11 families are grateful to Congressional Leadership for taking the difficult step of removing a controversial labor provision from pending security legislation intended to implement the remaining 9/11 Commission recommendations. We…

I would assure my friend that I have spoken to the Speaker on more than one occasion. We have been trying to get to conference on this for quite some time now. They completed their work. It has been about 3 rac{1}{2} weeks. I believe…

I have a suggestion. I think it is a valid, constructive suggestion. I would say to my friend from South Carolina, what he should do is see what he can do to get on the conference. That is what I would suggest. I would be happy to have you…

I have no objection to going to conference, but there is no reason to conference with the House on rules that apply only to the Senate.

Let's be realistic about this. The war in Iraq is dragging down people's confidence in what's going on in this country.

I understand the question. I will respond to it right now. He started it, if you read the Record, he asked me if I understand what his amendment does. I do understand what it does. A brief summary, Madam President. This legislation comes…

So the record is very clear, Harry Reid, the majority leader, did not pick the Republican amendments. The Republican leadership picked those amendments. Senator McConnell and I worked the process so that we would be back on the floor. It…

This legislation will correct that. This legislation will put 4.4 billion real dollars--not authorized--in direct funding. We got a signoff from the President to do this. If we did nothing else, zero-- for those people who have concerns…

I have worked for all the time I have been in the Senate, for more than a dozen years, on a very close, intimate basis while we were managing the Energy and Water appropriations bill, with the senior Senator from New Mexico, Senator…

We have got work to do.

I'm not going to get into what I said or didn't say.

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're going to be able to start this probably two weeks from tomorrow.

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 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…

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.