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Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 | 4:57 p.m.
Senator Harry Reid speaks during a news conference on the construction site of McCarran International Airport's new terminal Tuesday, January 12, 2009.
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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed to press on with health care reform today while insisting “there is no rush” to finish the landmark legislation that has become stalled after last week’s election of a Republican senator from Massachusetts.
Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi huddled this afternoon in what Pelosi called a “constructive meeting.”
Congress is turning its attention toward a jobs bill in advance of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Speech on Wednesday.
Yet talks continue between the House and Senate on a path forward for health care reform.
The chambers are debating whether it would be possible for the House to pass the Senate’s version of the health reform bill, and follow it up quickly with supplemental legislation to address issues House members oppose.
“This time and this form, there are not the votes in the House – not anywhere near – to pass the Senate bill,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi said that rounding up the votes to pass the bill with supplemental adjustments “depends on what the fixes are.”
The process would require a simple 51-vote majority in the Senate rather than the 60 votes typically needed to pass legislation.
Reid outlined the Senate’s agenda for the new year now that Democrats have lost their 60-seat majority with the election of Republican Scott Brown from Massachusetts.
“We’re going to create more jobs, many of them clean energy jobs, we’re going to reform Wall Street and we’re going to finish our historic obligation, opportunity to address health care,” Reid said.
On health care, Reid added, “there is no rush.” Others insist Democrats have a limited window to revisit the bill before the fall campaigns.
Jobs will be the first order of business as Congress continues its efforts to tackle the issue most pressing on voters’ minds.
The House in December passed a $154 billion jobs package that involves redirecting $75 billion from the Wall Street bailout fund to new projects to build roads, rehab public buildings, improve water systems and develop renewable energy.
The bill also includes an expansion of safety net programs, including unemployment insurance, small business loans and the continuation of a subsidy to help the jobless continue paying for their employee-sponsored health insurance.
The Senate is considering a separate bill.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed to press on with health care reform today
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Sad Sad Sad
Where are the
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
A few short days after Obama held a jobs summit in December that highlighted the realization that Obama had to do something for Small Business -- Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats went rogue and passed another stimulus bill with nothing but disdain for Small Business.
Nancy's $174 billion bill is just a regurgitation of the FAILED first $789 billion stimulus. It contains equal parts of Union infrastructure projects, raises for Union State jobs, and like the 4th or 5th extension of unemployment and cobra. CBO has said that most of the infrastructure accounts are so bloated with money that cannot be spent that only $1.7 billion of Stimulus II will be spent by September 2010.
What Nancy Pelosi is doing is piling on more payback to the Unions -- clearly more than they can even use. Even the Black caucus is dismayed at the lack of small business support in their communities.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good bye Dirty Harry, can't say it was good because it has not been!
Good luck on the unemployment line, but remember you get almost two years of unemployment now so you can milk the government for this as you will be fired and as such you will be authorized to get this.
Don't tell the unemployment office that you are getting a 100% paid government retirement that equals your current pay to the tune of more than $250K a year!
Also, don't let them know that you have been collecting your social security for the past 5 years as well, to the tune of more than $2K a month and also don't tell them about your cadillac health care program!
Just keep your head low before someone takes a shot at you, and don't lie and say it was the mob because you know as well as we know you were so entrenched with the criminal element here in Vegas and in Nevada that it was your own idea to stage the fake car bomb BS!
Come on? If the mob wanted you out, they would not go for something as simple as a car bomb, you would be taken out professionally!
The rush will be to remove Harry in November for being tone deaf.
LOL! FUNNIEST THING I'VE READ SINCE DIRT WAS NEW!
Interpretation: "Maybe I tweaked it just a wee bet too much in the backroom with Landrieu. That *^&$%+*ing Nelson has no *$&^*@ing gratitude at all."
FYI, Vorenious: Gried will get 80% of his $193,400 salary upon "retirement". Not sure if that will pay for the rent on the D.C. Ritz Carlton suite, though, so he may have to settle for the Searchlight Four Seasons.
Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi huddled this afternoon in what Pelosi called a "constructive meeting."
This is more of that transparency thingy, right?
The problem is not only with dingy Harry...it also ties with Reps Shelley Berkley & Dina Titus. They were so for Healthcare Reform and voted along with Pelosi and Reid and yet, when Scott Brown was elected the new senator, them Democrats all said that they will scale back healthcare and now focus on jobs, jobs, jobs. Why did they not focus on that in the first place? Healthcare to me isn't perfect, but it's fine. I don't think YOU Nevadans from North to South are that dumb to not see through them, right? I sure hope not...Berkely and Titus are the puppets of the Democratic White House as much as Reid and the people of Las Vegas better WAKE UP FAST!!!
Reid, Pelosi and Obama really messed this up.
They should have wrapped this thing up in the summer.
Reid,Pelosi and Obama are dirty backroom dealers that will not help allAmericans. They are double talking liers! Vote Reid out!
Harry is correct when he states no need to be rushed on discussion of healthcare. Let the discussion begin some time around the turn of the century!
Two of the biggest problems of why this country and the economy is in such sad shape is Reid and Pelosi, two lame and ineffective so-called leaders ever in Congress.
They had 60 votes in the Senate and couldn't get it done, now just because one Senate election in Massachusetts goes to a Republican, giving the Democrats a big majority of 59-41 they fold.
During the Bush/Cheney years the Repubs often had to get Cheney to show up in the Senate to break a tie and pass whatever Bush and Repubs wanted and now the Dems can't get anythibng done with a 9 vote majority. Pitiful.
There'll be no Health Care reform because the Dems can't get their act together and Obama is turning out to be ineffective because all he wants to do is give speeches. All talk and no action. He needs to shut up and start getting things done and his first priority better be the economy and jobs.
He also needs to save billions and brave American lives and bring all our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. There's nothing to win or accomplish in either place.
"No rush?" What the hell has he been trying to shove down our throats the past twelve months?
We're saved! Now to get him out! An INDEPENDANT
A thousand Thank Yous to Massachusetts for delivering us from this health care takeover nightmare and pounding the last nail in Scary Reid's coffin.
THIS HEALTH CARE BILL IS DEAD! I TOLD YOU SO! SORRY, LEECHES, YOU'LL HAVE TO BUY YOUR OWN.
dear harry...
i donated money to senator scott brown election campaign...and attached a note to shove the health care bill up harry's .....
glad to see you are smiling ....must have enjoyed it.
This had to be finished before summer recess. This had to be done before Thanksgiving. This had to be voted on Christmas Eve for effect and to "save" the nation.
Now there is no hurry. Poor harry. Standing out on a limb under orders from nancy Pelosi and her appointee BHO. What a country. Fix it Nov. 2010 and send harry to Searchlight.
Politico dot com, the inside Washington DC web site is reporting Cong. Titus as foul mouthed and dissing Senator Reid.
quotes.
In a display of contempt unfathomable in the feel-good days after Obama's Inauguration, freshman Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) stood up at a meeting with Pelosi last week to declare: "Reid is done; he's going to lose" in November, according to three people who were in the room.
Titus denied Tuesday evening that she had singled out Reid, but she acknowledged that she said Democrats would be "f---ed" if they failed to heed the lessons of Massachusetts, where Republican Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's Senate seat last week.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/011...
Poor Harry, he's fretting because he doesn't have a carpet big enough to sweep his Health Care Reform Bill under. He's also fretting because he can't find a viable reason to give the citizens of Nevada how he lost control of the reins over the mess he's made.
Harry, reality is hard to swallow sometimes, especially when one has brought the bad karma upon himself.
You've made your proverbial puddle of mud, now you have to wallow in it.
There is no hurry because that way they can try again when no one is looking, maybe just before he leaves office.
If there is/was "no rush", then what was the Christmas Eve vote all about? And the weeks leading up to that?
Titus is right (for once anyway); "Reid is done".
Very Sad! Now, there is no rush...what about all of the time that was wasted on this issue when perhaps the focus should have been on growing the economy and growing the jobs...unkept promises, nothing in the way of stimulus money for Nevada and Clark County citizens...proof that no one in Washington cares about our State.
lol! what a typical politician!
lol!
for the last 6 months he's done nothing but ram this down our throats, calling those opposed to it basically racist and no there's no rush?
haha!
PLEASE...democrats...you gotta vote against this guy. he's a black eye on your party.
They are still making a tactical mistake, they are not admitting that they were wrong in their dealings with the Health Care Bill. The will bite them later. Their arrogance will be their undoing.
It would be nice to hear a decent explanation as to way it is no longer imperative to pass health care now when it was top priority before and huge bribes went out for senate votes.
It looks like they are going to focus on green jobs again. I wouldn't trust any of these clowns. Obama told the truth during the campaign when he told us that cap and trade and his green push would cause energy costs "to inevitably sky rocket".
These people are on the same path again because they need to create a new emergency to seize power (just speculation). My guess is when the prices sky rocket like the president said, the government will need to take over energy.
Douchebag.
Reid, I hear you want to be re-elected. You have aligned yourself with the most destructive, anti-American president to ever sit in the White House...and Americans regret that we put him there.
We mean to fix our mistake. We are looking at those who align himself or herself with fiscally-irresponsible bills and those who are willing to continue to spend, spend, spend...and buy votes.
Enough is enough. You need to back off...distance yourself from Obama...rectify what you have frittered away...stop pulling "political," "back-room," and "Chicago-style" manuevering.
If you don't have the character that is required, then you need to withdraw your nomination and save us all the expense of your ego.
Prayer of the day:
O Lord, you've called home several of my favorite celebrities in 2009 such as : Danny Gans of the Magic, Farrah Faucet of the TV, Patrick Swayze of the Movie, DJ-AM of the disc jockey. Please be informed that Rory and his father Harry REID are my political favorites.
Amen
Reid is so arrogant, disgusting and despicable that words to describe him can not be written here. We need to send him back under the rock from which he slithered.
Yeah, there is no rush. That is why Reid kept the Senate in session on Christmas Eve, gave a $300 mil deal to Nebraska, another $300 mil to Louisiana, 100$ mil to Connecticut, etc etc, just to get the vote for cloture so the Senate version of the health care reform bill could be passed. Yep. I believe you Harry - NOT!
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