Harry Reid

Harry Reid

  • WASHINGTON - JANUARY 29: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (L) sits with Lilly Ledbetter during a meeting on Capitol Hill on January 29, 2010 in Washington, DC. Senator Reid met with members of several women advocacy groups on the one year anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

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  • Congress facing 'no easy choices' on health bill

    ...the House and Senate bills."There are no easy choices," said Hoyer (D-Md.)."There is no rush," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), said after a luncheon meeting of Democrats that focused on jobs and the economy, not health care. Reid said he'll keep... |more

  • O'Reilly, Beck jabs Dems at Westbury theater

    ...tone for the pair's two-hour "Bold and Fresh" tour, which was filled with barbs about Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid . At one point, O'Reilly said he'd like to see both of the Democratic leaders kidnapped and unharmed, though he quipped that... |more

  • Obama, Dodd, Gregg predict Bernanke wins 2nd term

    (AP) â President Barack Obama phoned Senate allies Saturday as two key senators predicted that embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be confirmed for a second term.Obama made calls from the White House to members of the Senate leadership |more

  • Dems mum on how to keep pushing health overhaul

    ...about me. This is about you."Despite Dodd's comments, both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D- Calif ., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev., insist the health care legislation will go forward. They just haven't said how.One potential approach could... |more

  • Obama hunkers down as health care falters

    ...divisions broke into the open again.Not two weeks ago, Pelosi was close to a final handshake with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev. By Thursday, she dismissed the Senate bill as a nonstarter tainted by backroom deals. Reid complained that the House... |more

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  • Newsblog: Obama Urges Setting Aside 'Petty Politics'

    ...leaders for coming to the White House on a snowy day in Washington. He said the meeting went so well that Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, were “out doing snow angels together on the South Lawn.” But... 9:37 PM |more

  • Former U.S. Senate candidate remains in Lander County jail

    ...A former self-declared candidate for Harry Reid's U.S. Senate seat remains in a Battle Mountain jail facing three charges of disturbing the peace, trespassing and resisting a public officer. He is being held on $1,951 bail. Jerry Dean “JD” Carter, 69, was... 9:25 PM |more

  • Obama Urges Bipartisanship On Major Legislature

    ...room. He started his remarks to reporters by engaging in a bit of wishful thinking: joking about Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and Republican leader Mitch McConnell "out doing snow angels together on the South Lawn." But the friendly rhetoric quickly... |more

  • Obama's health care summit: Just for show?

    ...White House, and was first broached last Thursday when Obama met Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Hoyer, to discuss the 2010 legislative agenda. Republicans say they were notified by the White House on Sunday,... |more

  • Obama calls health care summit with Republicans

    ...to start a "step-by-step" process to lower health care costs and expand access to treatment. Senate Democratic Majority leader Harry Reid said that Democrats had tried to work with Republicans from day one on health care — implying that the opposition party... |more

About Harry Reid

Harry Mason Reid (born December 2, 1939) is the senior United States Senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party, as well as the U.S. Senate Majority Leader for the 110th Congress.

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