Harry Reid

Harry Reid
Harry Mason Reidis an American politician, and senior United States Senator from Nevada, having served since 1987. A member of the Democratic Party, he has served as the Senate Minority Leader since January 2015, and has previously served as Majority Leader, Minority Whip, and Majority Whip...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 December 1939
CitySearchlight, NV
CountryUnited States of America
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Everyone knows there is not enough votes to support a filibuster.
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Everyone knows Karl Rove is involved, ... If the president is a man of his word, Rove should be history.
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The bill before us is based on faulty and questionable guesses, not estimates. The only alternative is that taxpayers will be left to fund the shortfall.
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It's like running up your credit card bills today because a fortune-teller predicted you'd be rich in 10 years. When the bill comes due, you can't pay with a prediction.
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It's going to take some Republicans of good will to be courageous and break from their leadership. They're getting tremendous pressure, and I understand that. But we feel good.
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a champion for the underdog who was the same kind, gracious man no matter how far he rose in Congress and in life.
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It will not happen -- and the sooner he comes to that realization, the better off we are.
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They couldn't go for her because she was an independent woman.
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They decided she was inadequately radical or insufficiently aggressive for their purposes, so they gave her the boot.
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They are good amendments if they relate to spending on Katrina for the victims, education, housing, medical,
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That is not one of the names that I've suggested to the president,
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take an average hotel worker in my home state of Nevada. He's married and has two children, and earns $25,000 a year. Under the Bush-Republican plan, he would get nothing -- not one cent in tax relief. Now take a rich stockbroker in New York who made millions trading other people's money. Under the Republican plan, he'd win the lottery. I don't think that's fair.
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It is unfortunate the president made such a divisive nomination.
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It's a program where the lobbyists paid and Republican members of Congress played.