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Harry Reid swaps shades for frosted lenses as Nancy Pelosi dons dark sunglasses in solidarity with her bruised colleague Comedy on Capitol Hill - the intentional kind, anyway - is pretty rare. But House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi got chuckles Thursday when she started a news conference by donning dark glasses, a teasingly sympathetic gesture to the man standing next to her, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. 'I brought my glasses to be like Harry, but he switched on me,' Pelosi said, removing her shades.

In the minority after Republican gains in November's elections, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois was sworn in Tuesday with a temporary gig: filling in for ailing Democratic leader Harry Reid.Durbin, 70, said the Senate minority leader was "making a speedy recovery from his New Year's Day run-in with some exercise equipment."With Reid on the injured roster, it fell to Durbin to lead his party's congratulations to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.Durbin did so by quoting the late Everett Dirksen of Illinois, a Republican and former Senate minority leader: "I am a man of fixed and unbending principle, the...

Harry Reid used to be a tomato can boxer. So he’s used to getting his ass beat. Harry Reid couldn’t make it to the start of the 114th Congress, so he decided to release a pity me video message instead. Harry Reid not only looks like the senile old coot he is, but also he’s starting to resemble a pirate.