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 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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Just as the president and his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill are trying to slash Medicaid, today's report demonstrates that fewer Americans can rely on employer-based health care coverage and Medicaid is growing in importance for millions. ... We should be working to address the rising cost of health care, not cutting the bottom out from under our families,
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Now remember, we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. We've already done that. So we need to get some credit for that.
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There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.
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The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.
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Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.
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We certainly are not about to declare victory,
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I've thought about this, and I'm not going to send one to my daughter, but all four of my boys are going to get one.
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It was the wrong choice for the American people in this cold holiday season.
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The state of the union today is that we have low-income Americans begging for their prescription drugs, and seniors are going without any coverage. The president has botched the Medicare so badly that it doesn't resemble a 'benefit' for most seniors.
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the Senate must be vigilant in considering this nomination.
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The stakes are higher, and the Senate's advice and consent responsibility is even more important,
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The United States has already fallen behind nations like Canada, Britain and Australia who finalized their avian flu plans months ago,
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I've been going to the gym for 24 years, and I've never been lobbied in the gym. Of course I'm pretty ugly naked.