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 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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We're taking this step today because the global gag rule is an ill-conceived, anti-women, and anti-American policy.
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We need to hear honesty, humility from the Commander in Chief, not swagger from the campaigner in chief.
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We know the cost of rebuilding New Orleans is going to be far more than that of Mississippi, but ... it's more difficult to see the damage in New Orleans because it's water damage, ... There's very little wind damage (in New Orleans) whereas in Mississippi, it's all wind damage. And it's devastation. I mean, you can see it just blew down everything.
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We can't afford any wake-up calls when it comes to preparing for or preventing a terrorist attack.
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The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.
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The American people are demanding a comprehensive plan and the benchmarks by which to measure our success for the war in Iraq, ... The president's continued refusal to provide that plan does nothing to support our troops or their families.
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The American people and our brave troops deserve better than a photo-op for the president and a pep-rally about Iraq. They deserve a plan. 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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Thousands of tons of deadly nuclear material will pass homes, schools, businesses and churches in communities all across the country, and there is simply no way to safely do this,
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Transporting high-level radioactive waste to Utah is as dangerous as it would be transporting it to Nevada, ... Thousands of tons of deadly nuclear material will pass homes, schools, businesses and churches in communities all across the country, and there is simply no way to safely do this.
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I can't imagine they would do that to the American people,
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get the truth about why the White House cherry-picked and leaked intelligence to sell the war in Iraq.
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I don't know whether Bolton's going to make it or not. But people shouldn't be up in arms now. This is a process we need to have,
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But there is nothing disrespectful about an open and fair-minded review of a nominee's approach to the Constitution and his commitment to core American values like equality, privacy and fairness,