House and Senate leaders said separately Tuesday that they hope to find a way to revive a health-care overhaul bill, even though the situation looks bleak with the recent loss of the Senate’s filibuster-proof majority. “We plan to do health care this year and do it as soon as possible,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [...]
The prospect that Massachusetts, of all places, might end up killing health care reform is so fraught with ironies too numerous to name that it’s difficult for me to think clearly on the subject. But now that state Sen. Scott Brown, an anti-reform Republican, has beaten out state Attorney General Martha Coakley, a pro-reform Democrat, [...]
President Barack Obama stands with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., at a fundraising event at Caesars Palace in May. Both share an increasingly close bond. Obama relies on Reid to move the White House’s agenda through the Senate. Reid needs Obama to motivate Democrats to hit the polls. Democrats were trying to remain calm [...]
For the second time in a week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) finds himself at the center of a political imbroglio stemming from something that he said in private that was subsequently broadcast to the outside world by unnamed sources. Just as the furor over Reid’s racially charged remarks about President Barack Obama seemed [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will come face to face with President Obama on Wednesday for the first time since a firestorm of controversy erupted last weekend over comments the Nevada Democrat once made about Obama’s race and dialect that were quoted in a new book about the 2008 presidential race. Reid and other Democratic [...]
By Frances Rice Wielding a sharp racial sword, Democrats ruthlessly destroy the careers of Republicans on racial matters, accepting no apologies. Yet, using a glaring double standard, those same Democrats quickly give a pass to any Democrat, such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who again displayed egregious racism. Hardly a ripple of protest was [...]
As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi work behind closed doors to mash together 4,765 pages to form America’s new health care regime, one last antagonist has emerged to fight their efforts: a meddling little activist organization known as C-SPAN. In a letter from Brian Lamb, C-SPAN’s chairman and CEO, the [...]
Reuters, Will Dunham The Republican Party chief called on Senator Harry Reid on Sunday to step down as Senate majority leader over racial comments about President Barack Obama, while Democrats tried to put the issue behind them. Reid, a key figure in pushing Obama’s agenda through Congress, apologized to the president on Saturday over remarks published [...]
KNTV, ABC News Governor Jim Gibbons today announced that the State of Nevada intends to sue the federal government to stop Senator Harry Reid’s health care plan if it becomes law. “There is nothing healthy about Reid’s health care plan, the first thing it will do is kill Nevada’s economy,” Governor Jim Gibbons said, “and [...]
Laura Meyers, Las Vegas Review Journal Sen. Harry Reid declared Thursday that Nevada would benefit more than almost any other state if health care insurance reform becomes law, a pledge he made in a carefully choreographed forum at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, that only a few hecklers managed to crash. “Who’s going to [...]
