Topic: Harry Reid
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The week after passing landmark healthcare reform and handing President Barack Obama an important victory, members of the U.S. Congress returned to their home districts for a recess to face constituents and justify their votes after the bruising ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid maintains Democrats have the right to push their health care plan through Congress without Republican support. At a bipartisan health care summit Thursday, Reid rejected Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander's call for a promise from Democrats that they ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives will vote next week on repealing the antitrust exemption for health insurers, but Democrats remained uncertain on Tuesday on how to proceed on a broader healthcare overhaul. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and House Speaker ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic congressional leaders said on Thursday they would keep pushing for a stalled healthcare overhaul and would explore all options to pass it, but acknowledged the process would not move quickly. The day after President Barack Obama's State of ...
Governor uses disingenuous arguments to attack Reid over health care Gov. Jim Gibbons has been out front in bashing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on health care reform, parroting Republican talking points. After issuing a few polemic screeds in the guise ...
ReidÕs efforts should open door to affordable health care to millions If the Republicans donÕt like the bill or providing access to health insurance to millions of people, they only have themselves to blame. Ironically, if they had accepted ReidÕs request to ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry ReidÕs position at the center of the debate over the proposed overhaul of health care is generating cheers and jeers across the nation and in Nevada this week. ÒSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid morphed into Santa Claus, giving ...
His errant ÔnoÕ vote reflects worries as colleagues cast ÔayesÕ WASHINGTON Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could not sleep. It was the night before the final Senate vote on the health care bill. The heavy lifting of assembling 60 votes was done. ...
WASHINGTON One by one, senators cast their votes in the earliest hours of Monday on landmark health care legislation. When the roll call came to his name, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stood by his desk in his sober brown suit, cast ...
Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a climactic Christmas Eve vote that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the country's history. "We are now finally poised to deliver ...