Senate Majority Leader

Sam Stein

All Eyes Turn To Reid: Legacy In Balance As Health Care Debate Continues

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics


With the Senate Finance Committee becoming the last of five congressional committees to pass health care reform legislation on Tuesday, the spotlight ...

Harry Reid Becomes GOP Target In Nevada

Wall Street Journal | JIM CARLTON | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics


Mr. Reid, 69 years old, is facing mounting criticism in his home state and is trailing in the polls against two Republican challengers for his Senate ...

Attorney General's Office Investigating Espada For Submitting False Statements On Grant Application

Times Union | JAMES M. ODATO | Posted 09.27.2009 | New York


ALBANY --- The attorney general's office is investigating if Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. submitted false statements in a grant application...

Sir Knavely and the Great Stimulus Package

Steven Denlinger | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics


Steven Denlinger

"I'm bitter," Sir Knavely told me. He raised his glass and drank. His furry chin went deep into his Tiger's Milk. Then he set it down. "Why are ...

Reid Voted Against Gitmo Closure For Fear Of Appearing "Liberal": NYT

The Plum Line | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics


Adam Nagourney reports this morning on the thinking of Harry Reid, suggesting that Reid dramatically broke with President Obama's policy of closing Gu...

Dawn Johnsen: Reid Says Another Obama Nominee May Be Blocked By GOP

Political Animal | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics


As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moves to ease a backlog of executive branch nominations, he suggested on Tuesday that he does not have t...

Reid Gets Help For 2010 Race With New Ad

MSNBC | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics


Other than The Replacements -- Roland Burris and Kirsten Gillibrand -- likely no other Democratic senator will have a bigger target on his or her back...

Who Needs the Right When the Left Has Itself?

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics


Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

This is the nub of it for me with the Lefties: they do not truly understand who they are, nor what they are motivated by. The slightest bump in the road leads to anarchy or dissent.

Not a Woman in the Picture

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?

Save the Jeep; Save the Nation

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business


Leo W. Gerard

Congress cannot let the Jeep die in bankruptcy. Congress must not fail the U.S. auto industry. Doing so would be abandoning the core of the American economy -- manufacturing.

Ten Democrats Who Should Go Away

Ben Cohen | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics


Ben Cohen

The Democrats have in some ways, been worse than the Republicans. As a party, they've stood idly by as the Bush Administration has literally ransacked the country.

PUMA -- Endangered Species

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Hillary made the case she needed to make to her supporters who were still sitting on the fence, and she did it perfectly, in a speech for the ages.

Nico Pitney

Reid Rebuffs Idea Of Senate Majority Leader Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics


Sen. Harry Reid on Monday brushed off the notion that he has any plans to cede his Majority Leader title once Hillary Clinton returns to the Senate fu...

The Harry Reid Problem: Lamest Daily Show Guest Ever

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home


M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Harry Reid, senate majority leader, was as weak on The Daily Show as he is on the senate floor, whining about the threat of Republican filibusters as a brake on change. Weak, weak, weak!