In a report detailing the news that Rep. Shelley Berkley violated House rules, albeit unintentionally, The Hill displayed its usual bias for Democrats and against Republicans. The House Ethics Committee asserted that Berkley and her husband benefited by her improper
(AP) Obama says he is ‘ready and willing’ to get dealBy JIM KUHNHENNAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama says he is “ready and willing” to get a big package done to deal with the “fiscal cliff” and says there’s no reason not
Reid Attends Opening of Clark County Shooting Park. Uploaded on Apr 1, 2010: Nevada Senator Harry Reid was joined by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, members of Nevada’s congressional delegation, state and local leaders over the weekend for the
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said House Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans “have threatened to abandon serious negotiations” to avert the fiscal cliff and warned Boehner’s Plan B counteroffer “will not pass the Senate.” According to The Hill,
(AP) Reid: Boehner fiscal cliff plan can’t pass SenateWASHINGTONSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid says a House Republican backup plan for avoiding the “fiscal cliff” can’t pass the Democratic-run Senate. House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that he was preparing a
Sen. Daniel Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat, has died. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Inouye’s death on the Senate floor.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had a disheartening reaction when asked if he would use the power he wields to bring House-passed bills before the Senate: he laughed. Reid tried to excuse his partisanship with explanations of Senate procedures:
Embarrassingly, we’ve all been there. With something of a crush, we try to get the attention of that one special person. We send letters or, in this day, texts. We talk to friends of friends. We make outlandish public displays
Harry Reid “Some Think It’s A Toupee, But Not Me”…
Even though President Barack Obama has not been “engaged” during fiscal cliff negotiations, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has twice rejected opportunities for the Senate to vote on Obama’s plan to avert the fiscal cliff, Stephanie Cutter, the deputy campaign
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) thinks Republicans who are talking about letting the debt limit expire next year are bluffing. On Wednesday, Schumer snarled, “I think they learned their lesson with the debt ceiling, I don’t think it’s leverage for them at all,” citing in
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who has refused a vote on President Obama’s fiscal cliff plan altogether, today labeled the entire Republican Party extremist – with the exception of some 26 Republicans. “Consider yesterday’s failure, the disabilities convention, at
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) turned down an opportunity to allow the Senate to vote on President Barack Obama’s proposal to avert the fiscal cliff, proving that Obama’s plan is so unreasonable that Senate Democrats do not
More bloviating from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid came on Tuesday in an attempt to excuse Democrats dismissing the proposal offered by John Boehner to avert the impending fiscal cliff. Reid continued the narrative of Republicans hurting the middle class
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (UPI) —Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. senator-elect from Massachusetts and bank critic, is likely to join the Senate Banking Committee, aides told The Wall Street Journal. The decision will be made in January after the new Senate convenes.
Discussion on the fiscal cliff continued Tuesday with Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid urging House Speaker John Boehner to outline specific ways to increase revenue. “They’ve got to come up with some specific revenue,” Reid said.
By STEVE PEOPLESAssociated PressBOSTONSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants Massachusetts Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren to join the Banking Committee. A Senate Democratic official confirmed Tuesday that Warren’s appointment was likely, but cautioned nothing was final until the Democratic caucus approves the
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) denigrated Hispanics in 2010 when Reid said he could not imagine how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican. Martinez charged that Reid, in those remarks, assumed
Last December, the DOJ overturned a forty year old regulation prohibiting online wagering, noting that a 1961 rule governing sports betting could not be considered to cover modern games of online Texas Hold ’em. It was a moderate success for
“Politics is the art of the possible.” The quote is attributed to Otto von Bismarck, a man not known for warm and fuzzy relations with political opponents. First as a Prussian general and later as Germany’s first Chancellor, he dominated
Now that Barack Obama has been re-elected and the Democratic Party holds sway in the Senate – again – unions and leftist groups are calling for filibuster reform. Reform’s the wrong word for it, actually: they’re calling for an end
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said on Monday that he is moving forward this week to begin consideration of the United Nations Treaty for People With Disabilities. The treaty, which was negotiated during the George W. Bush administration and
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R-NV) has a new quest: to rid the Senate of the filibuster, a tool used by minority parties to force compromise. And now he has an ally in that quest: President Barack Obama, the same
According to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Republican attacks on embattled UN Ambassador Susan Rice for her role in the cover-up of information surrounding the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi are “outrageous.” Reid released a statement
Grover Norquist, head of Americans For Tax Reform, was interviewed by Neil Cavuto on Fox today about the fact that some senators are abandoning their commitment to his no-tax pledge. Saxby Chambliss, Lindsay Graham, John McCain, Lamar Alexander, Tom Coburn
