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March 18, 2024

The Policy Racket

  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sits down with the Las Vegas Sun, Tuesday Dec. 3, 2013.
    Legalized medicinal pot has new supporter: Harry Reid
    everal Nevada municipalities are issuing moratoriums on medical marijuana dispensaries, but Harry Reid really thinks they should be moving in the opposite direction – toward making medicinal pot legal. “If you’d asked me this question a dozen years ago, it would have been easy to answer – I would have said no, because (marijuana) leads to other stuff,” the Senate majority leader told the Sun today. “But I can’t say that anymore.”
  • Harry Reid on lawmakers bent on defunding Obamacare: They’re ‘weird’
    Sen. Harry Reid’s got a new term of endearment for Republicans who want to defund Obamacare. They’re “weird.”
  • Effort to clear VA backlog isn't enough to appease Nevada lawmakers
    The Veterans Administration’s new effort to expedite the claims backlogged for a year or more is likely to help many veterans in Nevada, where it takes veterans an average of 17 months to get their benefits. But that isn’t a complete enough solution for Nevada’s delegation.
  • Reid defends Obama on two scandals, but not on a third
    It’s only Tuesday, but it's shaping up to be one of President Barack Obama’s roughest weeks on the job. The White House is fighting back the flames of three scandals.
  • Legal arguments in Proposition 8 gay-marriage case could ripple in Nevada
    The first case concerning gay marriage that came before Supreme Court this week was focused on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, a ballot measure to ban gay marriage in California. But the case — or at least the arguments presented in it — may have significance for states like Nevada as well.
  • President Barack Obama, escorted by Senate Sergeant at Arms Terry Gainer, waves as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2013, to visit with Senate Democrats in the first of four meetings with lawmakers this week to discuss the budget.
    Senate Democrats wary of Obama's hopes for 'grand bargain'
    President Barack Obama began his week of congressional meetings among friends, huddling with Senate Democrats for over an hour during their regular weekly lunch to talk strategy as the country edges closer to the effective date for sequestration cuts later this month.
  • Senate confirms candidate for federal judgeship in Nevada
    Nevada’s judicial vacancy count just dropped by one, after the Senate voted Monday afternoon to confirm Andrew Gordon for a seat on the federal bench.
  • Harry Reid says immigration is ‘top priority’ but won’t rush it
    Immigration is the “top priority” for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his team of top Democrats, who are confident 2013 “will be the year” that a comprehensive reform bill gets through Congress.
  • LV lawyer Gordon, a federal bench nominee, faces benign grilling at hearing
    Las Vegas lawyer Andrew Gordon received his first official grilling Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the first step in the process toward confirming him as a federal judge for Nevada.
  • Rep. Joe Heck speaks to Veterans at the American Legion Post 40 in Henderson on Wednesday, June 8, 2011.
    Joe Heck: We need to know what happened in the days leading up to Benghazi attack
    WASHINGTON — Last week’s hearings with former Central Intelligence Agency Director Gen. David Petraeus have not fully cleared the air surrounding the Obama administration’s response to September’s terror attack. At least one Nevada representative wishes lawmakers would focus on bigger takeaways from the Libya tragedy.
  • Sen. Harry Reid affixes an I voted sticker to his tie after casting an early vote at the Cardenas Market on East Bonanza polling station in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012.
    Harry Reid casts early vote in North Las Vegas
    Sen. Harry Reid was in North Las Vegas today, where he visited a Cardenas Market and cast an early vote. It was one of Reid’s first public appearances in the Las Vegas area since he was involved in a car accident last week.
  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, and other Senate Democratic leaders speak to reporters just after Senate Democrats passed their version of a yearlong tax cut extension bill by a near party-line 51-48 vote, at the Capitol in Washington, July 25, 2012. From left to right are Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Reid, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
    More action on tax-cut extensions, but no closer to a compromise
    Senate Democrats declared victory last week after passing a bill to extend tax cuts on income up to $250,000, while striking down a plan to extend cuts at upper income levels. On Wednesday, House Republicans declared the same victory — by doing the opposite.
  • Reid: Romney couldn't be confirmed as dog-catcher
    As the flame-throwing over Mitt Romney’s Bain background grows more heated on the campaign trail, Sen. Harry Reid has dedicated himself to stoking things from the sidelines.
  • Sen. Harry Reid furious over China-made Olympic team uniforms
    Sen. Harry Reid is ripping that the U.S. Olympic team’s opening ceremony uniforms are made in China — so much so that he’d rather see American athletes show up for the London ceremonies in original Olympian nude than sport threads made by the United States’ biggest economic competitor.
  • Yucca Mountain is located about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
    What vast support for Yucca amendment in House could mean for Nevada
    Nevada's House delegation stood firm against an appropriations bill that would pump $35 million to the Yucca Mountain project, registering its disapproval of the bid to revive the waste dump even as the bill passed the House with a strong majority.
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