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| Term Start | Term End | Role | State | Party |
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| 2005 | 2010 | Senator | NV | Democrat |
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Recent Voting History
| Bill | Voted |
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| On the Concurrent Resolution (H. Con. Res. 398 ) |
Aye July 31, 2008 |
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S.3001 Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S. 3001 ) |
Nay July 31, 2008 |
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H.R.4137 College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 On the Conference Report (H.R. 4137 Conference Report ) |
Aye July 31, 2008 |
Voting Trends Analysis
- Most often votes with: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]
- Least often votes with: Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC]
- Republican most often votes with: Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
- Democrat least often votes with: Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE]
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Harry Reid in the News
September 07, 2008 Smith-Reid's toughness, political clout pays dividends for Democrats
Tales of Searchlight Sen. Harry Reid's intestinal fortitude and visceral toughness run through his personal and political life story. From his poor-boy upbringing as the son of a hard-rock miner to his relentless rhetorical brawling as the majority
September 07, 2008 TROA signed in Reno on Saturday
Nevada Senator Harry Reid and United States Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne display signed copies of the Truckee River Operating Agreement, which was finalized in a ceremony Saturday at Wingfield Park in Reno. Nev., Calif., officials sign
September 06, 2008 Nev., Calif., officials sign landmark river deal
With the scenic stream flowing behind them, officials from Nevada, California and the federal government signed a landmark agreement that settles a century-plus-old dispute over the Truckee River's water. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Interior Secretary
Source: Bakersfield.com
Harry Reid in the Blogs
September 07, 2008 Traitor Joe
... the campaign trail while cramming for a debate with her Democratic opponent, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), in less than a month, according to officials from Sen. John McCainâs campaign. Is this getting your attention, Harry Reid?
Source: Media Needle
September 07, 2008 PRO-CHOICE IS ANTI-MOTHERHOOD AND ANTI-WOMAN
Senator Harry Reid called Sarah Palin "shrill". Others have called her a racist, sexist, vindictive, and oh my goodness... mean. They have said that her fifth child was not her own child, but rather that of her teenage daughter. ...
Source: Prolife America
September 07, 2008 Nevada and California officials sign landmark river deal
... that settles a century-plus-old dispute over the Truckee Riverâs water. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined local and state officials at the signing ceremony Saturday for the Truckee River [...]
Source: Aquafornia
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On September 03, 2008 Harry Reid was featured on the homepage of OpenCongress:
Aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that Reid was "very disappointed" in the speech that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) gave at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday. “[Sen. Lieberman] appeared to go out of his way to distort Sen. Obama's record of bipartisan achievements in the senate,” a Reid spokesman said. “He can give all the partisan speeches he wants, but as a majority of the American people have made very clear, the last thing this country needs is another four years of the same old failed Bush-McCain polices of the past.”
Campaign Contributions
Top Contributor: MGM Mirage ($150,750)
| Industry | Donation | % of total |
|---|---|---|
| Lawyers & Lobbyists | $1,569,631 | 20.2 % |
| Finance/Insur/RealEst | $1,448,218 | 18.6 % |
| Misc Business | $1,371,949 | 17.6 % |
| Communic/Electronics | $560,931 | 7.2 % |
| Health | $559,125 | 7.2 % |
| Ideology/Single-Issue | $420,325 | 5.4 % |
| Labor | $388,500 | 5.0 % |
| Other | $385,095 | 4.9 % |
| Construction | $311,100 | 4.0 % |
| Energy/Nat Resource | $235,548 | 3.0 % |
| Transportation | $215,500 | 2.8 % |
| Agribusiness | $174,230 | 2.2 % |
| Defense | $145,400 | 1.9 % |
| Total: | $7,785,552 |
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Mr. Reid,
I watched you just on TV right now quote section 1 of s2634 saying there is no reason to not vote for this bill. You left out the section that talks about the limitations you place on our military leadership in the last section of this simple bill. I know why you left that part out.
Get off the backside of your butt and do SOMETHING for this country. Rip the environmentalists a new body cavity and get our own oil in our system so we can save the 6.1 TRILLION dollars the arabs are going to reap from this latest increase in a barrel of oil. What must we do to heat our homes? Paying more than 3 bucks a gallon for heating oil is ludicrous because our government can't stand up for us. Give more money to the world, The cost of making ethanol is costing more than it's worth in burning in a car. All that's accomplishing is to drive up the cost of food. Nice going, a real snooker job on congress for this fiasco. Go environmentalists and Al Gore, wreck this country as fast as you can.
Mr. Reid: You are worse than pathetic. I watch C-SPAN everyday and if I didn't do any more on my job than what you do on yours there in the senate I wouldn't have kept my job for very long. Your position on immigration sucks. Thanks for telling all the American citizens to go to HELL. Anonymous
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THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS RISE EVERY DAY, IN SIX MONTHS WE WILL SEE A HUGE JUMP ONCE AGAIN IN FORECLOSURES, THIS WILL SPIRAL OUT OF CONTROL, AT LEAST PUSH AND PASS THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EXTENSION AND INCREASE FOOD STAMPS AND HELTH CARE FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN. AFTER ALL THIS IS AMERICA. NONE OF OUR CITIZENS SHOULD BE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD, NOW SHOULD THEY?
Too many families are in extreme hardship because of foreclosure. I came from another country, and we have a law for foreclosures, you get a refund of about 75% of what you paid if your house is foreclosed. Years ago the money lending was partly shouldered by out Social Security System - the first 100,000.00, and the rest are borrowed from the bank. It takes about 3 to 5 years of non-payment before you get evicted from your house. I think the housing law here in the US must be reformed to make it more humane, or it will destroy a lot of lives.
I have been out of work since November 2007. My unemployment benefits have run out. My money has run out. I unable to obtain employment and need more time to continue my search for employment. I am at risk of losing my car. Gas prices continue to rise daily. I am highly skilled in my field. My State Rhode Island is one of the hardest hit with unemployment. I am 53 old and have worked hard all my life. I've paid taxes all my life, and this is how my country is treating me. Unbelievable. The Senate, House and President continue to play games as peoples life's are put in jeopardy. Totally disgusting. So all the extra time that I am not spending on looking for employment, I will dedicate to making sure any politician that votes nay on not extending unemployment insurance will be out of a job their next term by informing the public of their decision in every forum available. I will encourage others to do so as well. It is time in this country for the people to take control of their government again and take it out of the hands of the uninformed, out of touch, uncompassionate, ignorant, greedy, self absorbed fools that are the true terrorists ruining this country. Pass a fxxkxxg bill extending unemployment benefits or you will be out of a fxxkxxg job!!!!!!!!! Try to remember you work for all the PEOPLE of this country! And all those PEOPLE will remember how you vote on this issue.
Dear Senator Reid, This War funding bill is essential to our Troops, and as an Ex-Marine, I too support this bill and the Unemployment Extension, Disaster Relief, especially the New GI Bill. This package was hammered out by the White House and Congress. The papers say "if the Senate passes this Legislation as is with out additional expenditures tacked on, the President will sign it". Now there are allot of people out here that are truly hurting. From the loss of their Jobs,Homes, either from our Economy or the Disasters. This Legislation must be passed, for God's Sake there are people's lives at stake here. Please don't play Political Poker with this Bill. Just pass it with the same Language as the White House and Congress put in there. Thank you
This is what happens Sen. Reid when the Government cuts off people's unemployment and when the economy is weak and there are no good paying jobs. Please pass the War Bill this week.
L.A. seeing more people living out of their cars
By CHRISTINA HOAG, Associated Press Writer Mon Jun 23, 2:48 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Having lost her job and her three-bedroom house, Darlene Knoll has joined the legions of downwardly mobile who are four wheels away from homelessness.
She is living out of her shabby 1978 RV, and every night she has to look for a place to park where she won't get hassled by the cops or insulted by residents.
"I'm not a piece of trash," the former home health-care aide said as she stroked one of five dogs in her cramped quarters parked in the waterfront community of Marina del Rey.
Amid the foreclosure crisis and the shaky economy, some California cities are seeing an increase in the number of people living out of their cars, vans or RVs.
Acting on complaints from homeowners, the Los Angeles City Council got tough earlier this year by forbidding nearly all overnight parking in residential neighborhoods such as South Brentwood.
But some people are just crowding into other parts of the city, including the seaside community of Venice, where dozens of rusty, dilapidated campers can be seen lined up outside neat single-family homes. The stench of urine emanates from a few of the vehicles, and some residents say they have seen human waste left behind.
"They're nasty and gnarly," said Venice resident Jeff Scharlin. "We've heard about drug dealing and prostitution in them. I've never seen it, but visually they're a blight and they take up parking space."
In Los Angeles, as in many other cities, it is illegal to live in vehicles on public streets. But the law is not easy to enforce. Police have to enter a vehicle to find signs that people are living there, such as cooking or sleeping, and occupants often refuse to answer when cops knock.
An easier way is to restrict overnight parking. In L.A., a first offense carries a $50 fine, and subsequent violations can cost as much as $100.
Parking-enforcement officers often give vehicle owners a warning and tell them to move on before issuing a ticket, and that usually solves the problem, said Alan Willis, a city transportation engineer. But other cities in the area are not as lenient.
"I had my motor home towed in Culver City. It cost me $500 to get it out," said Desiri Hawkins, who lives in a small RV in Venice. "I got ticketed in Santa Monica and had to go to court."
Tourist states with temperate climates, such as California and Florida, have long been magnets for the homeless. Los Angeles is the nation's homelessness capital, with an estimated 73,000 people on the streets. A survey of 3,230 homeless people last year in Los Angeles County found nearly 7 percent living in vehicles, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
"It's trending toward an increase," said Michael Stoop, acting executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. "People would rather live in a vehicle than wind up in a shelter, and you can't stay on a friend's couch forever."
People living out of their cars or campers tend to be more well-off than the homeless on the street. They usually have jobs or disability checks that enable them to maintain an old camper but do not allow them to afford rent.
"For more working-class and lower-middle-class people, the car is the first stop of being homeless, and sometimes it turns out to be a long stop," said Gary Blasi, a University of California, Los Angeles, law professor and activist on homeless issues.
Some Venice residents are clamoring for overnight parking restrictions. But parking limits in oceanfront neighborhoods are problematic because the California Coastal Commission requires communities to accommodate surfers, fishermen and other early-morning beachgoers.
"The complaints are getting louder and louder," said Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl.
For years, some cities such as Santa Barbara, Calif., and Eugene, Ore., have accommodated people who live out of their vehicles. Activists in Venice are looking at some of those ideas. Santa Barbara, for example, allows vehicles to stay from 7 p.m to 7 a.m. in church and city parking lots.
Knoll said she can barely afford to drive around with the rising price of gasoline eating away at the $950 monthly disability check she receives because of mental illness.
She said she is also sick of police waking her up in the wee hours by pounding on her vehicle with their nightsticks, and she is tired of fighting with residents who call her "lowlife scum" and hurl other insults.
"We need somewhere we can have a safe haven, where we won't be harassed," Knoll said as the wind from a passing car rocked her RV. "I never thought I'd be living like this, but I'm stuck. This is it for me."
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