Reid Working on Job-Creation Bill For 2010
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...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
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...
Politics Daily | Sally Denton | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
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 ...
Philip Lee Miller | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
You deserve a more articulate answer to the question: just what is the problem?
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
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...
Art Levine | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
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...
Andrew Kreig | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
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.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The fact is, no civil right should be left up to the masses. Our founders were very clear about equality in the Constitution.
nytimes.com | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
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...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
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...
The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
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...
Paul Loeb | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
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.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
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...
Sandy Maisel | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor Thursday to blast Republicans for blocking President Obama's nominees for key agencies...
Mike Lux | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
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.
Danny Groner | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
Senate negotiators have decided not to include a provision revoking the insurance industry's anti-trust exemption in the bill leadership sends to the ...
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
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...
Roll Call | Jessica Brady | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) excoriated Republicans on Thursday for stalling more than 200 executive and judicial nominees that in some ...
Robert Ellis Gordon | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
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...
The Hill | Walter Alarkon | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics