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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) testifies during a Congressional Oversight Panel Field Hearing at UNLV Tuesday, December 16, 2008. Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-NV), in red, listens in the background at right. The panel oversees the Treasury Department’s use of authority under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which includes money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021 | 10:57 a.m.
Flags on Nevada state buildings will be lowered in honor of the late Sen. Harry Reid, a native who went from humbling begins in Searchlight to a three-decade career in Congress.
“To say Harry Reid was a giant doesn’t fully encapsulate all that he accomplished on behalf of the state of Nevada and for Nevada families,” Gov. Steve Sisolak said in a statement Tuesday.
In a Twitter post today, he announced flags would be lowered.
“There will never be another leader quite like Sen. Reid,” Sisolak said. “To me, he was a mentor, a father figure and someone I trusted to always give it to me straight.”
Reid got his start in politics at age 28 as a member of the Nevada Assembly and eventually was elected to the U.S. House and Senate, where he served as majority leader from 2007 to 2015.
