Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s support remains frozen again this month around 40%, while two of his chief Republican opponents continue to draw over 50% of the vote in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Nevada shows Reid earning 39% to 41% support, depending on his opponent, [...]

Senate Republicans took what they could get. With bipartisan negotiations at an impasse and Democrats pledging to force votes until they relented, Republicans ended their standoff Wednesday over a financial regulatory reform bill, agreeing to allow a debate to begin on the politically popular measure. Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Banking [...]

Analogous to mixing matter with antimatter, opposing political forces could collide Sunday in Greenwich when Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., throws a fundraiser for embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Dueling protests by tea party members and local Democrats could await the highly unusual pairing of Reid and Lieberman, who are scheduled to be at [...]

Republican Sue Lowden may hold a commanding lead over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the polls in the Nevada Senate race, but Reid is determined to make her chickens come home to roost. Reid and his Democratic allies are unleashing relentless attacks on Lowden for her comments that Americans used to pay doctors with [...]

Nevada politics are suddenly being reshaped by Arizona, where Gov. Jan Brewer signed a tough anti-illegal immigration law last week. In doing so, she awakened the immigration debate that had gone dormant in recent years in the face of the economic collapse. She also likely did Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a favor. President Barack [...]

Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning called Harry Reid an “idiot” during a lunch meeting with other Republican senators this week — the latest sign that the Senate majority leader is getting under the skin of his GOP counterparts. Bunning’s harsh words — confirmed by several people in the room — came in the midst of Tennessee [...]

Senate Democrats on Wednesday began circulating a legislative framework for immigration reform that advocates hope will attract a Republican sponsor to replace Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and ease the way for action on both immigration and energy reform this year. The effort is an attempt by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to get around the [...]

President Obama said late Wednesday that “there may not be an appetite” to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws this year, even though he believes there is a pressing need to do so. “It’s a matter of political will,” Obama said during a rare visit to the press section of his presidential plane. He added, “This [...]

Where is it most painful to be a highly visible incumbent politician at this particular moment in U.S. history? Perhaps it’s California, where current economic and budgetary discontents are compounding a growing public fury over chronically dysfunctional state government and an imprisoning constitution. Maybe it’s Florida, that fading Sunbelt powerhouse full of simmering regional and [...]

Former first Lady Laura Bush has some harsh words for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in her upcoming memoir “Spoken From The Heart.” On Tuesday, ABC’s “Good Morning America” logged a report featuring excerpts from the book recently published by the New York Times. Astonishingly, these included Mrs. [...]