Posts Tagged ‘ Harry Reid ’

It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic -- Harry Reid on trying to work with Olympia Snowe on health care reform: "As I look back it was a waste of time dealing with ," Reid is quoted as saying in a forthcoming New York Times Magazine piece, "because she had...
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Ladies and gentlemen, our fearless Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the first key test vote on his $848 billion health care bill will be taken Saturday, but he declined to say whether he has 60 senators lined up to vote yes. "We will find...
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Filed under: Senate, Democrats, Republicans, Health Care, The CapitolistSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced his health care reform bill in the Senate late Wednesday, a measure that would expand coverage to nearly all Americans at an estimated cost of $849 billion over 10 years. The bill, which combines elements of proposals passed by the Senate...
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What's driving Harry? Conscience, polls, legacy, religion? All of the above.In what seems destined to become the most historic act in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's political career, the Nevada senator boldly announced this week that the bill he negotiated with the White House and the chairmen of the two committees debating the health...
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Do you approve of the way Harry Reid is doing his job?
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The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) is going directly after the one person who can decide whether health care reform includes a public option -- Harry Reid (D-NV): The ad’s message: The public option is not just a preoccupation of the left, and the failure to include one could (contrary to conventional...
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Bill Frist never had 60 votes. Bill Frist never cared. Republicans ran the Senate as if they owned the place, even when enjoying razor-thin majorities. Yet when Democrats took the chamber, the first thing Harry Reid did was complain that he couldn't do anything because he didn't have 60 votes. Then voters...
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Greg Sargent says Harry Reid has a "big opportunity" to make amends with the left. It’s worth noting that widespread disappointment with  President Obama among rank and file Democrats for his conciliatory posture towards the GOP and "centrist" Congressional Dems presents a big political opportunity for  Harry Reid. No idea if he’ll...
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Filed under: Senate, Democrats, Barack Obama, PollsSen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) would lose his re-election by a large margin to either of his potential Republican challengers if the voting were held today, according to a new poll. Reid is up for re-election to a fifth term in 2010. President Obama works closely with the...
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Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Obama AdministrationSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has officially declared his support for changing current Massachusetts law in order to quickly fill Sen. Ted Kennedy's vacated seat. As I wrote a few days back, an ailing Kennedy penned a letter urging Massachusetts lawmakers and Gov. Duval...
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