Posted on 01/07/2015 6:15:44 PM PST by Libloather
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) on Wednesday fired back at Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) characterization of the chamber as dysfunctional during eight years of Democratic control.
McConnell, speaking on the Senate floor this week, has repeatedly characterized the upper chamber as a body paralyzed by Reid’s iron grip on the agenda.
The new Republican majority leader pledged Wednesday to “restore the Senate” by returning to regular order and getting committees working again.
Reid said McConnell’s narrative is off-base.
“The new majority leader claims the Senate has not achieved, in his words, ‘squat,’ in recent years. The numbers in fact tell a different story,” he said in a statement read from the floor by Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin (Ill.).
Reid said that over the past six years the U.S. economy has added 10 million jobs, the stock market has reached an all-time high and the domestic automobile industry was saved from bankruptcy.
He also said 10 million Americans now have health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act, which Democrats passed in 2010.
“While some here in Washington may see that as ‘squat,’ the economic recovery has been very real to American families. I know how important it has been to working Nevadans,” he said in the statement delivered by Durbin and later emailed to reporters.
Reid said the Senate confirmed 132 judges in the 113th Congress, the most since the Carter administration, and 611 of President Obama’s nominees “in spite of Republican opposition.”
He urged McConnell to work with Democrats over the next year to confirm more of the president’s nominees and pass legislation to create jobs and spur growth in the economy.
“Working together, we can easily meet and surpass last Congress’s benchmark of 611 confirmations,” he said.
Reid pledged to work with Republicans but warned, “I have no intention of just rolling over.”
“Any attempt to erode protections for working American families — the dismantling of Dodd-Frank, the weakening of net neutrality rules or the Republicans’ never-ending quest to repeal ObamaCare — will be met with a swift and unified Democratic opposition,” he said.
Still, Reid promised not to engage in the “gratuitous obstruction” that he says Republicans were guilty of in the last two Congresses.
“The filibuster is an indispensable tool of the minority, but Republicans’ abuse of it last Congress has come to epitomize the gridlock here in the United States Capitol,” he said.
He pointed to the GOP filibuster of former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), whom Obama nominated to serve as secretary of Defense.
I honestly think a large majority of the country, including many R politicians, have forgotten (were not taught) why socialism is bad. I don’t think they care if we become more socialist because they don’t know any better.
For the record, in case you have to argue with a LIV, the main reason socialism is bad is because it places the rights of the State, or Society, above the rights of the Individual. In other words, the Opposite of the American way as expressed by the Bill of Rights and Constitution.
Constitutional Convention. Term Limit Amendment. Solved.
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Who rolled Harryo?
What a pile of bogus “accomplishments.”
U.S. economy has added 10 million jobs — weak entry jobs and chronically low employment participation
stock market has reached an all-time high — due to endless Fed pumping, not underlying valuation of companies
domestic automobile industry was saved from bankruptcy— bankruptcy allows an orderly restructuring as a leaner better managed enterprise which should have happened to GM
10 million Americans now have health insurance — but no health CARE due to doctors quitting and $6,000 annual deductibles that nobody can meet.
LoFos will buy it.
Oh please, roll over so I can watch you wince Harry.
Try it again, Guido. This time put your back into it.
Darn, we told him once. Guess we will have to “Speak” to him again. LOL
Yes, senator—my professional opinion concurs with your gold-plated health care provider’s advice:
You’re all-stove up.
And ugly, too.
And stupid.
its a family thing...capeesh?
I shall not try to explain his broken body.
I will say this.
The man is a liar of everything from word go.
I despise you Harry Reid. You do not have a respectable broken or un-broken bone in your body.
You LIE!
If God wants you to heal. He will do it. Don’t depend on Satan. He won’t.
I’d like to personally thank whoever kicked this weasels ass,
so thanks little lady whoever you are.
“Working together, we can easily meet and surpass last Congress’s........”
Doing ANYTHING together can surpass Reid’s historical road blocks against anything the republicans offered.
Guess he fell on his head harder than thought.
“Working together, we can easily meet and surpass last Congress’s........”
Doing ANYTHING together can surpass Reid’s historical road blocks against anything the republicans offered.
Guess he fell on his head harder than thought.
Put him on another bicycle...STAT!
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