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Associated Press
A new congressional report released Friday says the United States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama's grim budget submission last month.... Read More
Las Vegas Sun
Republicans are blasting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his awkward expression of the better-than-expected unemployment report out this morning showing 36,000 jobs lost last month.... Read More
The New York Times
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is urging Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to quickly write comprehensive climate and energy legislation to give the measure a chance of reaching the floor this year.... Read More
The Hill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) suggested Monday that domestic violence by men has increased due to U.S. joblessness.... Read More
Associated Press
It's a bipartisan jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory and placate Republicans with tax cuts at the same time. But it has a problem: It won't create many jobs.
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MercuryNews.com
Starbucks has brushed aside a request from a gun control advocacy group to ban the display of guns in its retail locations, saying it will abide by laws that allow patrons to openly carry unloaded weapons... Read More
The Hill
As it turns out, Senate Democrats may not be able to force healthcare legislation through the chamber on a simple majority vote.... Read More
POLITICO
Reid completed his tirade against Republicans by accusing them of wanting to shut down government. "We all know Republicans have dedicated themselves to grinding government to a halt," he said. "They do so openly and proudly, and boast about their aversion to compromise."... Read More
Las Vegas Review Journal
The latest numbers released Friday that show fresh gains in unemployment suggest a recovery for Nevada's job market will have to wait.... Read More
Associated Press
Senate Democrats on Wednesday proposed allowing the federal government to borrow an additional $1.9 trillion to pay its bills, a record increase that would permit the national debt to reach $14.3 trillion
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Press Release
“A few weeks ago, Harry Reid compared his health care opponents to slavery defenders. Now he’s talking about our President’s ‘light skin’ and ‘negro dialect.’ He disgraces himself almost monthly with some disparaging remark about his constituents, political opponents, or now the President."... Read More
Los Angeles Times
Democrats simply ramming the immense measure through, however, might look heavy-handed to some moderate Americans, while having one party's leadership secretly craft the final bill behind closed doors fits more with a policy of official opacity than oft-promised transparency.... Read More
The Wall Street Journal
A bill so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas eve.... Read More
The Washington Post
Senate Democrats said Saturday that they had closed ranks in support of legislation to overhaul the nation's health-care system, ending months of internal division and clearing a path for quick Senate passage of President Obama's top domestic policy priority.... Read More
National Review Online
For the moment at least, Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) seems to have his ducks in a row. He has secured the vote of the lone remaining holdout in his caucus, passed the defense appropriations that stood between him and his health care bill, and cleared the way for a Christmas Eve vote.... Read More
New York Times
Democratic leaders hit a rough patch Friday in their push for sweeping health care legislation, as they tried to fend off criticism of their proposals from a top Medicare official, Republicans and even members of their own party.... Read More
ABC's The Note
ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports: Senators and staffers watched CSPAN breathlessly from their offices Wednesday evening as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated they might not have to work this weekend.... Read More
POLITICO
In a bold but risky year-end strategy, Democrats are preparing to raise the federal debt ceiling by as much as $1.8 trillion before New Year’s rather than have to face the issue again prior to the 2010 elections.... Read More
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian - a community activist with a history of working with at-risk African-Americans in Las Vegas - called on Senator Harry Reid to apologize on the Senate floor for comparing his health care opponents to defenders of slavery.
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Las Vegas Review Journal
President Barack Obama has lost ground in the last month in getting Nevadans to embrace his health care reform package and, for the first time, opposition is above 50 percent and support is below 40 percent, a new poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal reveals.... Read More
Big Government
In the very near future, Senator Reid is going follow Speaker Pelosi’s lead and try to pass his Senate version of the liberal utopian health care plan – a full, unabashed socialist-style takeover of our nation’s health care system.... Read More
The Hill
A new measure on the public option will be unveiled next week, which Senate Democratic leaders hope will break the logjam on healthcare reform.... Read More
Rasmussen Reports
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.... Read More
The Washington Post
The American public remains skeptical of the Democrats' claims that the health care reform bill will not add to the deficit, and many experts believe that the bill will add to the growing national debt, despite the assertions of Harry Reid and the Democrats.... Read More
Politico
Danny Tarkanian released the following statement today after Senator Blanche Lincoln became the 60th vote to allow Harry Reid to bring his health care bill to the a vote in the Senate:
“ Senator Lincoln has become the 60th and deciding vote to start debate on Senator Reid’s health care bill, but she blasts the public option and says she will not vote for the bill as written.”... Read More
According to the Congressional Budget Office, Senator Reid’s government healthcare plan will raise taxes on individuals, families and businesses by a staggering $493 billion if implemented.... Read More
John Boehner's GOP Leader Blog
Harry Reid's massive health care bill strips the anti-abortion language of the Stupak-Pitts amendment in the House bill, and it would require taxpayers to pay for elective abortions under a government insurance plan.... Read More
ABC News
ABC News reports that Recovery.gov, the website set up to track stimulus spending, claims that millions of dollars were spent and hundreds of jobs created in congressional districts that do not even exist.... Read More
New York Times
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, hopes to finalize the Senate version of major health care legislation this week. But don’t count the days. Mr. Reid and his aides have been saying the same thing for a month, ever since the Senate Finance Committee approved its bill on Oct. 13.... Read More
MSNBC
Harry Reid is considering a payroll tax hike to fund the Senate's government takeover of health care.... Read More
New York Times
In the two weeks since the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, embraced a proposal that would allow states to opt out of a new government health insurance plan, state leaders have begun debating whether to take part, and the question has emerged as a litmus test in some campaigns for governor.... Read More
The Hill
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Tuesday issued a public warning of a coming Senate fight over abortion once the healthcare reform debate starts.... Read More
CQ Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid insists that he and his colleagues refuse to be “bound by any timelines” on health care legislation. But House passage of its overhaul bill this weekend has created momentum for — and pressure on — the Nevada Democrat to push forward on a Senate version by year’s end.... Read More
San Francisco Examiner
Now that the House has passed major health-care legislation, the pressure is building on Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to pass a bill by President Obama's Christmas deadline.... Read More
Wall Street Journal
As Democratic leaders enter the intensive phase of their drive to pass health legislation, they must satisfy 60 Mary Landrieus in the Senate -- every Democrat and the two Democratic-friendly independents, each with individual priorities -- as they try to hold together a fragile coalition with no room for error.... Read More
A summary of Senate activity for the week of 11/2-11/6... Read More
The Hill
The American College of Surgeons and 19 other groups representing surgeons delivered a letter to Harry Reid Wednesday stating their opposition to the Senate's healthcare reform legislation.... Read More
The Washington Examiner
The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went:... Read More
Fox News
A spokesman for Sen. Joe Lieberman refuted a report Tuesday that the Connecticut senator struck a secret deal with Majority Leader Harry Reid in which he promised not to block a final vote on health care reform.... Read More
While the public option may sound like a free ride for Nevadans, it will ultimately lead to Medicare cuts and increased costs for Nevada.... Read More
Politico
Democrats have blown so many deadlines for getting health reform done this year that insiders are increasingly skeptical they can finish by year’s end — and some even suggest the effort might slip to a new deadline, before the State of the Union address.... Read More
Fox News
The estimated share of Americans younger than 65 who'd sign up for the public option plan under the health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is steering toward House approval would be used by 2 percent of the population.... Read More
The Hill
Facing a difficult re-election fight, Harry Reid has taken several steps in recent months to bolster his popularity among liberal Democrats.... Read More
The Hill
Harry Reid is facing increasing pressure from liberal groups to push one of Barack Obama's most controversial nominees through Senate confirmation.... Read More
An update on this week's bills, votes, and floor activity from the US Senate.... Read More
The Hill
The hoopla provoked by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) decision to include a public option in healthcare reform has obscured the fact that major issues in the bill remain unsettled.... Read More
Politico
Independent Senator Joe Lieberman declared that he would back a GOP filibuster of Harry Reid's health care bill, citing his opposition to a government-run insurance program.... Read More
By Dana Milbank - The Washington Post
Harry Reid, shopping for reelection insurance... Read More
By Glenn Thrush - Politico.com
Reid announces push for public option... Read More
AP
With Nevada's economy struggling, Harry Reid faces a difficult re-election fight as he attempts to push the Obama agenda nationally.... Read More
CNN
Senator Reid is still trying push the “government option” despite opposition from the public. This is exactly what alienates Senator Reid from Nevadans – he cares more about his party leadership role than he does representing our state.... Read More
Harry Reid quote of the Week:
“Well, of course I don’t bring anything to the floor if I don’t think I have the votes,” made in reference to the Medicare Physician Fairness Act that failed 47-53.... Read More
“Well, of course I don’t bring anything to the floor if I don’t think I have the votes,” made in reference to the Medicare Physician Fairness Act that failed 47-53.... Read More
The Corner on National Review Online
Harry Reid's recent defeat on a vote to change the Medicare doctor payment formula indicates that he is losing the confidence of his fellow Senators.... Read More
Las Vegas Review Journal
In danger of losing his bid for re-election, Harry Reid has already begun to promise more and more pork-barrel spending... Read More
