Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In the last years of his life, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urged Democrats to build on his legacy of ending the filibuster.
Former Sen. Harry Reid was remembered Wednesday as a “legendary leader,” as colleagues and friends gathered at the U.S. Capitol to pay tribute to a hardscrabble Democrat who rose from poverty ...
Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving senator, died at 82 last month following a battle with pancreatic cancer. He is set to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
In 2007, while he was the Senate Majority Leader, Reid initiated the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program to study unidentified flying objects [36] [37] at the urging of Reid's friend, Nevada billionaire and governmental contractor Robert Bigelow, [38] and with support from the late senators Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye ...
Reid made headlines in May 2005 when he said of George W. Bush, "The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser." Reid later apologized for these comments. [26] Reid also called Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas an "embarrassment" [27] and referred to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as a ...
(The Center Square) – Washington State Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, is standing by comments he made last week to a Fox News reporter about 13-year-old children making their ...
English: On June 24, 2009 Senator Harry Reid, then Senate Majority Leader wrote a letter regarding the Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program (AATIP) to Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn
The political kingmaker retired in 2017 after having played key roles in shaping both the Senate and Nevada politics. Harry Reid, longtime Senate Democratic leader, dies at 82 Skip to main content