One unsung part of Harry Reid's legacy is how hard he fought to protect the public lands of Nevada for the future. We came to know Reid through his work protecting Nevada’s lands and waters. In campaign stump speeches, he often told a story about...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, and Senate Democrats gather outside the Capitol to urge Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and other House Republicans, to break the.
I have been almost silent from the blog for the last week. The main reason is that I spent that whole week in the West. The proximate reason was to.
Good on Harry Reid to push so hard against the Cliven Bundys of his state and make his legacy protecting huge swaths of land from development. And good on his political skills for pushing it to the top of Obama's land agenda, to the point...
Filibuster reform is dead. Why? Harry Reid and senior Democrats flat out don't want it. Reformers think Reid changed his mind again in December, after a series of amendments to.
Bernstein on filibuster gamesmanship: A broader point: if Democrats believe that Republicans will inevitably turn the Senate into a majority party rules institution as soon as they get the majority,.
There's not much to add to what Ta-Nehisi Coates has to say about the false equivalence between Trent Lott's segregationist nostalgia and Harry Reid's linguistic incompetence. Still, it's worth remembering that Strom Thurmond's bid for the presidency was not simply animated by a general opposition...