Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says he intends to retire at the end of his term in 2017. But he may still face legal pressure before he leaves. Former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova, a leading legal expert on the prosecution and defense of white collar criminals, tells Breitbart News there is enough public evidence to launch a criminal investigation of Reid.
Visas for sale? Through a brazen intervention, Sen. Harry Reid ultimately forced the Department of Homeland Security to bend to his will in a way that benefited his political allies and family. Here’s how he did it.
Cause of Action, a nonprofit, government oversight group, is calling on the Department of Justice to “immediately investigate” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Governor Terry McAuliffe (D-VA), and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas “for their participation in unlawful political activity, possible coercion and fraud related to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.”
A high ranking Department of Homeland Security official exerted improper influence on the granting of immigration benefits for politically connected individuals, according to a new government report.
Nothing’s moving in the Senate. Democrats won’t allow a human trafficking bill to come to the floor, so GOP leaders won’t allow a vote on Loretta Lynch’s nomination for attorney general.
A conservative group is calling on a Super PAC closely aligned with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to give back $700,000 it accepted in 2012 from Dr. Salomon Melgen, a close friend and major donor to Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) slammed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for delaying a vote on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch’s confirmation until the Senate clears a human trafficking bill.
There will be no Senate vote on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch until Democrats stop blocking a human trafficking bill, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says.
Dr. Salomon Melgen’s friendships with and campaign contributions to two powerful senators helped get his case before the Secretary of HHS, but didn’t help him escape a nearly $9 million charge for overbilling Medicare, a Breitbart News investigation reveals. And Melgen may face new charges of overbilling by millions more.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn’t have to bring U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama’s nominee to serve as the next Attorney General of the United States, up on the Senate floor for a vote next week—or ever—if he doesn’t want her confirmed. But he’s doing it anyway.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says an amendment to eliminate birthright citizenship is “stupid.” But he’s supported such efforts in the past.
A source in the judge’s chambers tells Breitbart News that federal prosecutors haven’t yet asked for a hearing to consider more detailed evidence to support its earlier demand that Sen. Bob Menendez’s legislative aide Michael Barnard testify for a grand jury.
Breitbart News asked Peter M. Koski, the Department of Justice attorney leading the investigation into Sen. Robert Menendez, how Sen. Harry Reid’s conduct differs from Menendez’s and why Reid himself is not under federal investigation on similar charges of corruption. We have not received a response.
The former chief of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Benjamin T. Jealous, is said to be considering a run for the US Senate seat in Maryland that is opening up now that Senator Barbara Mikulski has announced her retirement.
Democrats are a minority in both Houses of Congress, but you wouldn’t know it. They’re crowing about forcing the House to accept a Senate-passed DHS spending bill that contains funding for President Obama’s executive amnesty.
Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) defended tying funding for the president’s executive action on immigration to DHS funding on Thursday’s “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. “I agree with [Sen.] Harry Reid (D-NV), the Department of Homeland Security ought to
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is warning House Republicans against adding provisions to block President Obama’s executive amnesty to the “clean” Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill the Senate is expected to pass.
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said that judging by developments in the fight over DHS funding “you would have thought that there wasn’t an election last November, and then you would have thought that the election that was last November
Barack Obama’s veto of the bill allowing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline is likely to be a bellwether of vetoes yet to come, reversing a trend in his first six years in office that saw him veto only two bills.
Senate Republicans are ready to cave in on DHS funding. But Minority Leader Harry Reid may prove to be a sore winner.
On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) accused Republicans of being more afraid of DREAMers than ISIS. Speaking on the Senate floor, Reid listed ISIS’s recent atrocities, including their burning alive of a Jordanian pilot, and the daily cyberterrorism
Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-NV) is slated to have additional eye surgery on Wednesday. The battered leader has been long recovering from what’s been reported as an accident while exercising at home.
For the past week, President Obama and Senate Democrats have spent the past two weeks blasting Republicans after the House passed a bill which included two different proposals to defund Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Republican leaders in Congress, however, haven’t been as aggressive in their messaging strategy.
Reports indicate Sen. Harry Reid has $1.5 million in the bank heading into the 2016 cycle.
An ABC News report accuses the leader of the Democrats in the Senate of pressing immigration officials to fast-track investor visas.
“We should pass a homeland security bill with no strings attached to it,” said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) after returning to the Senate floor for the first time since injuring himself severely while exercising in his bathroom at home.
A New York Times piece means to portray ailing Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid as still in command while holed-up in “a well-appointed one-bedroom condominium at the Ritz-Carlton on M Street.”
Sen. Harry Reid once praised the prisoner swap that freed Bowe Bergdahl last year.
Sen. Durbin thanks Sen. McConnell for returning the Senate to a more normal way of operating.
Congressional leaders are piling on the New England Patriots for allegedly deflating game balls used to wallop the Indianapolis Colts 45-7 during Sunday’s AFC Championship Game.
While Politico dances around the subject, the portrait they paint of an aging and seriously injured Democrat Sen Minority Leader Harry Reid is inescapable.
Calling it “a necessary step to assist in recovering full vision,” doctors for 75-year-old Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid say he will need surgery following a recent accident said to have happened while he was exercising at home.
Between his low approval numbers and the existence of at least one, if not more popular potential Republican challengers, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has emerged as the most vulnerable Democrat in the upcoming election cycle according to Larry Sabato.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid did not attend the White House meeting with President Obama and congressional leaders this morning due to injuries sustained during the Christmas recess. His staff reports that Reid was hurt while exercising. President Obama and Vice President Biden met with leaders of both parties today, including Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Friday in an interview with Nevada Public Radio affiliate KNPR, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said his recent accident while exercising at his home, causing broken bones around his eye and three broken ribs, in no way reflects on
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid took to YouTube to explain a “bizarre” New Year’s Day injury Reid claims happened while exercising.
Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, (D-NV) bandaged and bloodied from an exercising accident last week, taped a video message to let everyone know he was “homesick” for Washington D.C. and the start of a new Congress. Reid said, “I
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said now that the Republicans are about to take control of the U.S. Senate, “The days of hiding under Harry Reid’s desk are over.” Krauthammer said,
When Democrat Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis admitted to faking her pro-gun positions in an effort to defeat Republican Greg Abbott she put herself in line with a growing number of Democrats who’ve claimed to be pro-gun in order to
“McLaughlin Group” host John McLaughlin argued that Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) was “destined for political oblivion” on Friday. McLaughlin said that once Republicans assume the majority in the Senate, Reid would become a “back-bencher” thanks to the “majority-takes-all” rules Reid
