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Like father, like son? As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seeks an electoral victory in the face of low approval ratings, so too does his eldest son, Rory, whose bid to become governor of Nevada has also taken a plunge. The pair's growing unpopularity among Nevadans has made each a liability for the other's campaign -- giving fodder to Republican candidates striving for wins in the Silver State. Harry Reid, who has been roundly criticized in recent days for racial remarks about President Obama, has a 52 percent disapproval rating in his state, according to a Mason Dixon poll conducted...

Reid: Bush has 'exit strategy' only for himself Congressional Democrats pushed back hard Thursday against President Bush’s speech on Iraq, accusing him of delaying further troop withdrawals so that he can hand off the conflict to the next president. Democrats welcomed Bush’s call to reduce troop deployments from 15 months to 12 months, but they said he should go further and embrace a proposal by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) under which soldiers would spend at least a year at home before they could be called back to active duty in Iraq. Webb’s deployment proposal came up three votes short last...

October 26, 2007 Reid: Bush Recklessly Spends Overseas, Ignores Investments In America Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today in response to President Bush’s comments this morning: “President Bush’s speech was an announcement of his intent to continue turning his back on the priorities of the American people: giving police officers the resources they need to protect our communities, ensuring children can see doctors when they are sick, improving education and changing course in Iraq. Democrats are working to address the needs Republican Congresses have severely under-funded, but President Bush – the biggest-spending President in 40...

Washington, D.C. — Legislation that would grant legal immigration status to thousands of migrant farmworkers will likely be added to the Senate’s farm bill, said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

(The Politico) News flash: Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just praised Rush Limbaugh on the Senate floor. Yup, the same Reid who lashed out at the radio show host earlier this month and rounded up 40 Democratic senators to sign a letter to Clear Channel boss Mark May, urging him to repudiate Limbaugh's "phony soldiers" comment, which was interpreted by some as an attack on soldiers who oppose the Iraq war. But oh, how the storyline has changed. Limbaugh put the letter up for auction on Ebay, and it is now fetching more than $2 million. The proceeds will benefit...

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<p>Q: You disagree with the assessment President Bush and Gen. Petraeus put forth this week. How do you think the course should be changed?</p> <p>A: All you have to do is look at what they said. Nothing has changed since the surge started. Today, now we learn that 1 million Iraqis have been killed since the war started. A million. That's pretty hard to comprehend: 3,800 Americans, 30,000 wounded. More than 2,000 double amputees.</p>

Excerpt - WASHINGTON - A brawl over presidential pardons punctured the normally courtly ambiance of the Senate on Thursday night, but Republicans and Democrats agreed to bury the hatchet and erase the evidence before the sun rose Friday. In the heat of a partisan spat, Democrats forced a vote on a nonbinding measure to instruct President Bush not to pardon former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. But there's no record of the 47-49 vote in the daily record of congressional proceedings — or anywhere else. That's because senators agreed less than an hour later to undo their vote...

Without acknowledging his comments yesterday when he said the "war is lost," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said President Bush and his allies "attacked those of us with courage to ask the tough questions and tell the truth about Iraq." He described their criticism of him and other Democrats as "an effort to shift attention from this Administration's failed policies" in Iraq. In a remarks on the Senate floor after Bush's speech today, Reid did not repeat the "war is lost" comments. Instead, he said that "the longer we continue down the president's path the further we will be from...

The war in Iraq "is lost" and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said Thursday. "I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week," Reid said, on the same day US President George W. Bush was giving a speech at an Ohio town hall meeting defending the war on terror.

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 03/28/2007 Pelosi and Reid Call on President to Work with Congress to Chart New Course in Iraq Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today sent the following letter to President Bush objecting to delaying the needed funding for our troops by vetoing the emergency supplemental spending bill, and urging him to work with Congress to ensure our troops receive the support they deserve. The text of the letter is below: March 28, 2007 The President The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: Last...

March 6, 2007 REID STATEMENT ON THE LIBBY VERDICT Washington, DC — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today released the following statement on news that a jury has found Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice. "I welcome the jury's verdict. It's about time someone in the Bush Administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics. Lewis Libby has been convicted of perjury, but his trial revealed deeper truths about Vice President Cheney's role in this sordid affair. Now President Bush...

REID DEMANDS SENATE REPUBLICANS NOT BLOCK CRITICAL 9/11 LEGISLATION Tells Senate Republicans to stop protecting the President and starting protecting the American people Washington, DC — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today released the following statement demanding Senate Republicans put the security needs of the American people ahead of the political needs of President Bush and drop their plans to block legislation to implement the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission. "The same President that initially opposed the Department of Homeland Security and initially opposed the 9/11 Commission has signaled that he may oppose to the most sweeping improvement to...

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will miss the state funeral for former President Gerald Ford at the Capitol Rotunda on Saturday night, opting instead to lead a delegation to South America with an expected stop at the Machu Picchu Inca ruins. Reid, D-Nev., left Wednesday afternoon from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland with a bipartisan group of five other senators, including Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the incoming assistant majority leader, for what has been described as a weeklong visit to Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. The highlight of the trip is said to be separate meetings with the presidents...

Harry Ried (D-Nev.) reacts to reports that he has been named to federal prosecutors by Jack Abramoff.

Democrat Reid elected Senate majority leader 10 minutes ago U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record), a moderate Nevada Democrat, was elected by colleagues on Tuesday as U.S. Senate majority leader for the 110th Congress that will convene in January. Reid, like most fellow Democrats, favors a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, a major issue in last week's elections that saw Democrats win control of the Senate and House of Representatives from President George W. Bush's Republicans. Reid has served the past two years as Senate minority leader. He replaced Tom Daschle, who was ousted by voters...

The Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said his office contacted the Senate ethics committee on Wednesday and offered to correct his financial disclosure statements if they misrepresented his ties to a land deal in his home state in which his family made a profit of about $700,000.In a statement, Mr. Reid did not acknowledge errors in the disclosure forms but said he was ready to make a “technical correction” if the ethics committee determined that adjustments were needed.

Democrats Go on Offense in Latest Terror Case Looking to the past for lessons, they respond fast and sharply, saying Bush 'mismanagement' fed the threat and the GOP is playing politics. By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer August 12, 2006 CRAWFORD, Texas — Two years after President Bush won reelection having painted his opponent as soft on terrorists and weak on national security, Democrats have seized on the latest alleged terrorism plot in hopes of turning the political tables on the White House. Their aggressive stance was evident hours after British authorities announced they had disrupted a plot to blow...