Harry Reid

I notice that the Senate overwhelmingly passed H.R. 2, the minimum wage legislation. I congratulate the floor managers for their excellent work. I congratulate the Republican leader for working with us to get this important piece of…

Senators Kerry and Snowe, who are the chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Small Business, have indicated there are a lot of matters relating to small business jurisdiction that need to be completed forthwith. They are going to…

The problem we have is a narrow window of time because of the absolute requirement--absolute requirement to finish the continuing appropriations resolution by February 15 to avoid a total closure of the Federal Government--a total closure…

I said at a meeting with the press earlier today how much I appreciate the Republicans supporting cloture on this minimum wage bill. I hope we are going to have a good bipartisan vote on this bill. There is no question in my mind we will…

Consultation, to me, means consultation. You sit down and talk with people you're trying to work something out with. Not after you've already written the speech.

Mr. President, if I may say a few words in addition, today we are going to, hopefully, have a debate that will be meaningful to the American people on minimum wage. This debate will be completed tomorrow in many respects, with a cloture…

Prior to the nomination being taken up, let me say that I met General Petraeus in Iraq. At that time, the Republican leader was Senator Frist, who is a doctor, as we all know. General Petraeus said, ``I want you to take this back to Dr…

Today is the graduation of the pages. There will be a ceremony at 10 o'clock honoring them in remembrance of their stay in the Capitol. The pages do invaluable work, and they have for many years. I depend upon them personally all the time…

We want the American troops protected in Iraq. But for the president to escalate this conflict outside Iraq is something he has to come back and ask us permission to do.

Also, we are going to take up the minimum wage bill this afternoon. I hope we can finish it this week. There are a lot of things going on. There is a conference going on someplace outside the boundary of the United States. We have a lot of…

I failed to acknowledge the managers of this bill. I apologize to both of them. They have been masterful in working this bill the last 2 weeks. The two managers are going to be involved heavily in getting this through conference. I have so…

The point is, it was not done. I think that is unfortunate. But the issue before this Senate tonight is whether we are going to move forward with the most significant lobbying and ethics reform, by a large margin, since Watergate. It would…

I still say I think it is a terribly unfortunate day for this Senate that a bipartisan piece of legislation dealing with ethics and lobbying reform that has been cosponsored for the first time in three decades as the first bill brought…

Yes, it was. Why can't we do this at a later time when you have all the time you need? I have told the distinguished Republican leader, we will have your amendment. We will have Carper or something like that. I am not sure Carper is what…

Consultation, to me, means consultation. You sit down and talk with people you're trying to work something out with. Not after you've already written the speech.

The surge is a bad idea. The president said he was going to listen to his commanders. If he's listening to his commanders, he can't do this.

Remove our troops from this civil war.

Completing the mission in Iraq is the president's job. And we will do everything to assist the commander in chief to ensure his responsibilities.

We know, from experience, that majorities come and they go. Majorities are very fragile. And majorities must work with minorities to make that lasting change.

Fifty-one to 49 -- some may look at this as a composition for gridlock, a recipe for gridlock. But I see this as a unique opportunity.

Even though I was raised here, my mother always was able to instill in me that I was as good as anybody else.

I am a pessimist about everything in life. That way I have fewer disappointments.

I think Harry Reid really sort of summed up the whole issue today when he said, I think that even though we have at least two positions, I think, if you look at them closely, they're basically the same.

We're all praying for a full recovery. We're confident that will be the case.

There isn't a thing that's changed.