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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We're going to reform Washington, ... After years of Republican scandals and abuses of power, it's a big task. But the American people are demanding change.
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When we faced a similar situation after September 11, Democrats and Republicans came together and established an independent, blue-ribbon Commission,
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What has been the response of this Republican-controlled Congress to the administration's manipulation of intelligence that led to this protracted war in Iraq? Basically nothing,
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We're going to have a vote Tuesday morning. Everyone knows there are not enough votes to support a filibuster, but it's an opportunity to people to express their opinion on what a bad choice it was to replace Sandra Day O'Connor.
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We're going to have an independent commission to study what went wrong, ... Mark my words, it's going to happen.
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Instead, the nominee adopted what I consider a disingenuous strategy of suggesting that the views expressed in the memos were not his views, even at the time the memos were written.
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Instead, he cherry picked isolated examples of Iraq's reconstruction from two cities that provide an inaccurate and incomplete picture of the situation on the ground for most Iraqis.
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I regret that the American people have still not received a plan that identifies the remaining political, military and economic objectives that must be met in order to succeed. The window of opportunity for the Iraqi people and this administration to get things right will not stay open forever.
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I hope so, ... It isn't as if we're looking for things to have extended debate on. We need to work together and I think this week has established that. But how can we work together when information is not supplied? So, I hope that we'll all slow down the rhetoric during the break.
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I have too many unanswered questions about the nominee to justify a vote confirming him to this enormously important lifetime position.
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I have to say without any qualification that I'm very happy that we have someone like her.
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I think not only should the president appear before the American public and explain what is going on and take a few questions from the press, but certainly the vice president should do that, ... Late Edition.
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His credentials look very good, he seems to be a very nice man,
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In the past year, Americans have been shocked and some certainly disgusted by revelations of corruption to our system. It has shaken public confidence in the Congress and our entire federal government.