Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) announced Friday he would delay consideration of measure to combat online piracy, bowing to pressure from a coalition of Internet companies, including Google and Wikipedia, that rallied consumers to their side by saying the legislation could lead to the censorship of popular sites. Read full article > >
“These programs have worked in the past. Republicans know they’ve worked in the past. But when you have a goal, your only goal is to follow your leader. And that leader, my friend Mitch McConnell, his goal is to defeat Obama. Of course they don’t want to do anything that’s constructive.” –Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Oct. 17, 2011 Read full article > >
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Harry Reid’s claim that the GOP won’t ‘do anything that’s constructive’
On Thursday night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) triggered the so-called nuclear option — unilaterally changing Senate rules by a simple majority vote to stop the minority from forcing votes on uncomfortable amendments. It’s the same tactic the majority would use to undercut the minority’s ability to filibuster. And that’s why it’s called “nuclear” — it dramatically alters the balance of power between the majority and minority. It is not a step to be taken lightly. Read full article > >
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Harry Reid’s nuclear blunder
Congressional leaders have worked out a deal for a four-year extension of several key provisions of the Patriot Act , with a little over a week remaining until the current measure extending the counterterrorism surveillance law is set to expire. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) reached an agreement Thursday on a clean extension — one with no amendments attached — of three major Patriot Act provisions until June 1, 2015, according to a senior Democratic aide. The Senate will take up the measure first, with the vote on ending debate slated for next Monday and a final-passage vote possible Wednesday. The House would then follow suit by the end of the week. Read full article > >
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Leaders forge deal on four-year extension of Patriot Act provisions
WASHINGTON — An aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the lawmaker dislocated his right shoulder and has a bump over his left eye after he fell on Wednesday. Spokesman Jon Summers said Reid went outside to exercise on a rainy day, put his hand on a wet surface and slipped. The Nevada Democrat was treated at George Washington Hospital and released. Summers said the 71-year-old Reid planned to go to work as usual on Wednesday. Reid was absent at the start of Senate proceedings, with Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat, taking his place. Read full article > >
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Senate Democratic leader dislocates shoulder in fall
President Obama returned to Washington from New York Wednesday night for an after-dark meeting at the White House with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner, hoping to resolve the parties’ budget impasse in the final hours…
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Obama Meeting Fails to Reach Consensus
President Obama called congressional leaders to the Oval Office Wednesday evening as the hours dwindle before a government shutdown. Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner will meet at 8:45 p.m. after an afternoon of…
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Obama Calls Leaders to Oval Office
Another DADT fake-out? Despite earlier reports that a vote would take place Wednesday night on the military policy known as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced the vote would be postponed so he could continue to…
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No Senate Vote on DADT
Washington – Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s single-handed effort to stall the EPA’s newest initiative to curb heat-trapping gases could fade away if a vote isn’t shoehorned into an already jam-packed and topsy-turvy lame duck session that began Monday. Months ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had promised the Democrat from coal-rich West Virginia that his proposal would gain floor time. But this week the Nevadan appeared to backpedal on that pledge. read more
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Lame Duck Effort to Stall Clean Air Act Is Quietly Quacking
Early voting results in two of Nevada’s most populous counties suggest that some serious trouble lies ahead for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. According to local election officials, Republican turnout has been disproportionately high, despite voter…
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Early Voting Not Good for Reid
While much of Washington was preoccupied Thursday evening by the contrast between the unacceptable and the profoundly uncomfortable — the first televised debate between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the challenger for his Nevada seat, Sharron Angle — a different scene was unfolding in a…
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A tentative step toward the Oval Office by a GOP policy guru
Things are heating up in the Nevada Senate race, as Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid clashed in their first and only TV debate on Thursday. Republican challenger Angle laid in to Reid, challenging his…
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Angle, Reid Clash in Only TV Debate
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid opposes plans to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terror attacks, days after Barack Obama defended them.
Harry Reid’s claim that the GOP won’t ‘do anything that’s constructive’
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Leaders forge deal on four-year extension of Patriot Act provisions
Thursday, May 19th, 2011A tentative step toward the Oval Office by a GOP policy guru
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