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Reid Working on Job-Creation Bill For 2010

The Hill | Walter Alarkon | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Senate Democrats will take up a new job-creation bill in the wake of the 10.2 percent unemployment rate, Majority Leader Harry Reid told his colleague...

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Reid Hoping Clinton Builds Momentum For Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Looking to build momentum before the Senate goes on recess, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reached out to the White House last week to see if the a...

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Sue Lowden Faces Backlash After Questioning Reid Assassination Attempt

Politics Daily | Sally Denton | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Sue Lowden's campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in his 2010 re-election bid took a nosedive when she laughed about an ...

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Health Care Reform: Trying to Please Everyone and No One

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Financial Crisis, Harry Reid, Medicare, Public Option, Barack Obama, Howard Dean, Universal Health Care, Politics News

You deserve a more articulate answer to the question: just what is the problem?

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Reid Picks Pelosi's Pocket To Pay For Business Tax Break

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Tax Breaks, Nancy Pelosi, Unemployment Insurance, Politics News

In order to fund business tax breaks and an extension of a first-time homebuyers tax credit this week, Harry Reid swiped one of Nancy Pelosi's revenue...

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AARP, AFL-CIO Boost House Health Plan That Taxes Rich, Not Middle Class

Art Levine | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: So-Called Cadillac Plans, Health Care Reform, House Health Reform Bill, Harry Reid, Aarp, Afl-Cio, President Obama, Senate Finance Committee, Maggie Mahar, Taxing the Rich, Politics News

The centrist lobbying powerhouse for the elderly, the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP), is scheduled to endorse the House health care bill despite its possibly flawed public option.

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GOP Folds On Unemployment Benefits Fight: 14-Week Extension Passes

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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The GOP called for the check Wednesday night, having had enough of the fight over an extension of unemployment benefits that the party had held up for...

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Fans of House Health Option Cite Rights, Hopes, But Risk Big Defeat

Andrew Kreig | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Sheila Jackson Lee, Public Option, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Harry Reid, Politics News

Despite favorable national poll numbers, the public option faces a potentially fatal counter-attack during the weeks ahead because of lack of follow-up by its proponents.

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It's Not Maine, It's the Process

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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The fact is, no civil right should be left up to the masses. Our founders were very clear about equality in the Constitution.

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Homebuyers' Tax Credit Set To Be Extended By Congress

nytimes.com | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate and House are poised to agree on a compromise measure to extend unemployment benefits that also would expand a popular $8,000...

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Harry Reid: Health Care Bill May Not Be Finished This Year

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — In a blow to the White House, the Senate's top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for pas...

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Harry Reid Reassures Democrats That Joe Lieberman Is On Board With Health Care Bill

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached a private understanding with Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will not block a final vote on healthcare reform, accor...

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Putting the Power Back in the Hands of the People Against Rogue Democrats

Paul Loeb | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Baucus, Max Baucus, Filibuster, Lieberman, Joe Lieberman, MoveOn.Org, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

As the health care fight approaches its end game, there's now a way for us, as ordinary citizens, to exercise power, and create enough of a potential cost to deter conservatives standing in the way.

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Ed Schultz: Obama Would "Sell His Soul" For GOP Support On Health Care (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

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On Friday night on The Ed Show, Ed Schultz gave an impassioned speech calling out the president for making concessions on health care and abandoning t...

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Who Will Step Into Ted Kennedy's Shoes on Health Care

Sandy Maisel | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Orin Hatch, Chuck Schumer, Olympia Snowe, Ted Kennedy Health Care, Politics News

Some see Kennedy's legacy as the roaring liberal lion, ready to express moral outrage. And surely he was that. But his lasting legacy may well be as the respected legislator who could reach across the aisle.

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Reid To Push Dem Senators To Fight GOP Obstruction

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor Thursday to blast Republicans for blocking President Obama's nominees for key agencies...

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Getting the Deal Done

Mike Lux | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Harry Reid, U.S. Senate, Cloture, Public Option, 2009 Obama Administration, Politics News

With the Republicans becoming locked into being the party of No, Democrats are going to need to seriously consider revising the rules of the Senate at the beginning of next term.

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Alan Grayson's YouTube Followers Don't Want His Copycats

Danny Groner | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media

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Where once politicians would escort the people into the future, social media sites are now propelling them forward. Left for debate is whether these new vehicles are actually shaping better leaders.

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Reid Punts On Insurance Industry Anti-Trust Exemption

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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Senate negotiators have decided not to include a provision revoking the insurance industry's anti-trust exemption in the bill leadership sends to the ...

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Breaking: Senator Reid States He Is Keeping Anti-Immigrant Vitter Amendment From the Senate Floor

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: 2010 Census, Harry Reid, Immigration, Latino Politics, David Vitter, Senator David Vitter, Denver News

Today at a press tele-conference with Latino members of the press Senate Majority Leader Reid stated that he was keeping the anti-immigrant Vitter amendment from the floor of the Senate.

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Reid All But Certain That Health Care Bill Will Make It To Senate Floor

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) feels nearly certain that he will get the 60 votes needed to pass the first major procedural hurdle when it comes to getti...

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Reid Calls On Americans: "Contact Your Representatives Back Here In Washington And Push Hard"

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Public Option, Health Care, Politics News

Harry Reid, in a new Web video posted Thursday, makes the case for a public health insurance option and appeals to voters across the country to contac...

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Harry Reid Excoriates GOP For Stalling Nominees On Senate Floor

Roll Call | Jessica Brady | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) excoriated Republicans on Thursday for stalling more than 200 executive and judicial nominees that in some ...

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Stiletto Road

Robert Ellis Gordon | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

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When I took ill in 1989, I discovered what so many others had discovered: that private insurance companies didn't like me any more. Here's what else I've learned since then, and my message to the President.

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Reid Gets No GOP Support For Resolution Honoring Hispanic Media

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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For the past week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office has been looking for a Republican co-sponsor for an utterly non-controversial resolution...

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