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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The president has made his choice, ... Now the Senate will do its job of deciding whether to confirm John Roberts to a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court.
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The president can give all the speeches he wants but nothing will change the fact that his Iraq policy is wrong.
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The president can give all the speeches he wants, but nothing will change the fact that his Iraq policy is wrong. Two weeks ago, he told the American people that Iraqis would control their country by the end of the year. But last week, he told us our troops would be there until at least 2009.
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Two years ago, when we went into Afghanistan, there wasn't' even a working road grader in the whole country.
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Two weeks ago we agreed to a schedule, and we have abided by it. Now we find that behind the scenes they (House prosecutors) are working with Starr, and that is not good. It just shows exactly what is going on here.
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Unfortunately, today's event only served to highlight the fact that the president refuses to engage in a frank conversation about the realities on the ground.
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Moving to the estate tax would be a travesty on top of a tragedy,
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We can no longer simply pledge to stay the course; we must change the course,
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The poorest of the poor have been hit the hardest by Katrina. Shouldn't we consider not cutting Medicaid $10 billion? Because that is where the money goes, to the poorest of the poor. Cut student loans? Food stamps? These are cuts to the very programs that survivors of Katrina need,
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We want to change the course. We can't stay the course.
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There are no commitments of a date certain to vote on the nomination, so everyone should understand that,
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There are things that I ask for the (Democratic) caucus to follow me. This isn't one of them,
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We've spent endless hours, endless days, too many weeks debating radical judges and Republican attempts to abuse power.
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