Senator Harry Reid of Nevada

To get the necessary 60 votes to pass health overhaul legislation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid must resolve Democrats' disagreements on the public option, abortion, cost and affordability.  

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago. The Nevada Democrat, in a sweeping set of accusations on the Senate floor, also compared health care foes to those who [...]  

Senator Harry Reid has had about enough of Republicans and their "let's take our time" attitude on health care reform. This morning on the Senate floor he railed against those pushing Democrats to forget their wholesale approach to fixing health care and urging small steps instead. "You think you've heard these same excuses before? You're right," Reid said. "In this country there were those who dug in their heels and said, 'Slow down...  

Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid showed his fear of losing the health care vote. He let go an outburst that was as offense as it was historically inaccurate: Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is this:, 'slow down, stop everything, let's start over.' If you think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery...  

It's crunch time in the Senate: If Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to pass his health care bill before heading home for Christmas, he will have to broker some very big deals very soon. The proposal to start a government-run health insurance plan, or "public option," continues to be an obstacle for Democrats, as does the debate over abortion language in the bill. The Senate is expected to start the abortion debate today and vote on the matter...  

At this point, at least, it appears that Nevadans are heartily sick of Harry Reid and want someone to replace the three term incumbent. Politico's Scorecard: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) continues to face weak support back home, and trails both of his leading Republican opponents, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll released today. Even as Reid has been airing a number of television ads highlighting his clout in the Senate and...  

WASHINGTON -- History cannot be made working bankers’ hours, suggested Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as he opened a rare weekend session of the Senate on health care reform that will continue Sunday when President Barack Obama is scheduled come to the Hill.  

CQPolitics.com - His hey-I'm-your-senator advertising campaignhasn't encouraged Nevada voters to warm up to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, according to a poll conducted this week for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  

“If the election were held today, the top Senate Democrat, Harry Reid, would lose to either real estate businessman Danny Tarkanian (R) or former state GOP chairwoman Sue Lowden, a Mason-Dixon poll conducted for the Las Vegas Review-Journal found,” according to The Hill. Wake up Democrats.  You are losing this nation.  President Obama has inexplicably focused [...]  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans can’t take weekends off from worrying about health care and the Senate shouldn’t either, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Saturday as he opened a rare weekend session to debate President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.  

WASHINGTON — Americans can't take weekends off from worrying about health care and the Senate shouldn't either, Majority Leader Harry Reid said today as he opened a rare weekend session to debate President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. With Democrats preparing to vote on an amendment targeting tax breaks for insurance executives' pay, Reid lashed out at "greedy health insurance companies" that he said make profits by neglecting...  

There's alot to look forward to in 2010 if the GOP can get their collective asses in gear. Chief among them would be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid going down with the socialized medicine ship.Reid should have been jettisoned as soon as he said this anyway but the Democrats hate the military so it didn't even register on their outrage meter one iota:He turned out to be spectacularly wrong in a  

WASHINGTON - Americans can't take weekends off from worrying about health care and the Senate shouldn't either, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Saturday as he opened a rare weekend session to debate President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.  

According to The Hill, Harry Reid hasn't ruled out reconciliation to pass the healthcare reform bill. Talk about using budget reconciliation to pass healthcare reform in the Senate has faded from public view, but Democratic leaders continue to hang the threat over centrists in private. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) discussed reconciliation with wavering centrists before an important procedural vote to begin debate on healthcare...  

A fragile gentleman's agreement between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is breaking down, and now, three days into the health care debates, having held not a single vote on a single amendments, Democrats are...