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March 28, 2024

Sen. Harry Reid

Reid, Boehner: Compromise still attainable, even in a divided nation
April 24, 2019
Reid and Boehner aren’t the first political rivals to team up and sound the call for bipartisanship — after getting out of the trenches themselves …
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks before a panel discussion with former Speaker of the House John Boehner at the Bellagio Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The panel was part of the inaugural symposium of the MGM Resorts Public Policy Institute at UNLV.
Harry Reid: Impeachment could distract from other issues
April 23, 2019
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, a Democrat, and former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, may have clashed in Congress, but their post-politics relationship is more cordial. The two spoke at a symposium today at ...
Solutions, not political blame, are focus of anti-Semitism event organized by Harry Reid
April 9, 2019
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid said he was prompted into action after seeing reports of anti-Semitic hate crimes and incidents spread across the nation and into Nevada …
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid speaks from the witness stand, Thursday, March 28, 2019, in Las Vegas. Reid testified in his negligence lawsuit against the maker of an exercise device.
Product lawyer points out Reid's conflicting statements
March 29, 2019
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid was challenged Friday about his "veracity" and truthfulness after saying that his political career was cut short by an eye injury he blames on ...
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, second from left, sits in court Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in Las Vegas.
Harry Reid due to testify in exercise device lawsuit
March 27, 2019
Attorneys say former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid is due to testify Thursday in his negligence lawsuit against the maker of the exercise device TheraBand. Product chief Allison Ryan of ...
Harry Reid, the former Senate Democratic leader from Nevada, pays a visit March 21, 2018, to Capitol Hill in Washington.
Jury to hear Reid damages trial against exercise band maker
March 26, 2019
A jury in Nevada was due to hear opening arguments Tuesday in former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's lawsuit against the maker of a flexible exercise band that he says slipped from ...
Senator Harry Reid has remarks for the graduates as the UNLV Boyd Law School holds their commencement ceremony  on Friday, May 12, 2017.
Reid says Trump has no conscience, wants a Romney 2020 run
Jan. 10, 2019
Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid says he thinks President Donald Trump has no conscience and says he'd like to see Utah Sen. Mitt Romney run against Trump in ...
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) is shown during an interview at UNLV's Boyd School of Law Thursday, April 20, 2017. Reid was officially named as the first Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at UNLV's Boyd School of Law.
Harry Reid: Trump is ‘amoral,’ ‘the worst president we’ve ever had’
Jan. 2, 2019
In an interview with The New York Times Magazine, former Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada called President Donald Trump “amoral” and ...
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) is shown during an interview at UNLV's Boyd School of Law Thursday, April 20, 2017. Reid was officially named as the first Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at UNLV's Boyd School of Law.
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid undergoing cancer treatment
May 14, 2018
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada will undergo chemotherapy after doctors removed a tumor from his pancreas today. Reid underwent surgery in Maryland after ...
Harry Reid, the former Senate Democratic leader from Nevada, pays a visit March 21, 2018, to Capitol Hill in Washington.
Ex-Sen. Harry Reid: Money driving rise in partisanship in D.C.
April 4, 2018
Two retired Democrats who served in the U.S. Senate together for nearly three decades said Tuesday that money has been the driving force behind a dramatic rise in partisanship and resulting gridlock in Congress over the past decade ...
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev, speaks during a ceremony at UNLV Thursday, April 20, 2017.
Are UFOs real? A Pentagon program tried to find out
Dec. 19, 2017
In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find. Which was ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) gives opening remarks during the National Clean Energy Summit 6.0 at the Mandalay Bay Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013.
Harry Reid, Sandoval push bipartisan energy effort
July 12, 2017
Two key players in the Republican and Democratic parties in Nevada are teaming up to host a clean-energy talk as the White House abandons a worldwide agreement to curb climate change and ...
Jon Huntsman Sr. makes a $1 million gift to UNLV to study the region through the Harry Reid Endowed Chair for History of the Intermountain West. From left: Len Jessup, UNLV president, Sen. Harry Reid, Jon Huntsman Sr.
Huntsman-Reid friendship yields $1 million donation to UNLV
June 27, 2017
Philanthropist and businessman Jon Huntsman Sr. has donated $1 million to UNLV’s department of history to fund the study of the Intermountain West region ...
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, center, laughs  during a ceremony at UNLV Thursday, April 20, 2017. With Reid are Daniel Hamilton, left, dean of the law school, and Reid's wife, Landra. Reid was officially named as the first distinguished fellow in law and policy at UNLV's Boyd Law School.
'A beacon in politics': Harry Reid introduced as UNLV law school fellow
April 20, 2017
Harry Reid spent his adult life impacting Nevadans through national politics. The former Senate majority leader will now spend part of his post-retirement time ...
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid speaks during an opening ceremony for the Federal Justice Tower, a new office building in downtown Las Vegas, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016.
Harry Reid joining UNLV law school as distinguished fellow
April 10, 2017
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid will be joining the UNLV Boyd School of Law as its first distinguished fellow in law and policy. The school announced today that Reid ...