Harry Reid

Tom Perez and the 'nuclear option'

2013-05-20 03:00:00

Republicans accuse Thomas E. Perez, President Barack Obama's nominee for labor secretary, of twisting the legal process in three cases in St. Paul, Minn., to suit his political purposes. But it is they who are twisting the Senate's role to "advise and...

Taxing Internet sales

2013-05-11 04:00:00

In 1998, when President Bill Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially...

Boston bombing brings out the new xenophobes

2013-05-01 00:00:00

The Boston Marathon bombing has brought out the xenophobes. Often when America suffers some large, inexplicable tragedy, we want to blame "foreigners" and look for ways to fortify ourselves against them. It's more reassuring to believe that an evil lies...

Getting to yes on immigration reform

2013-04-17 11:38:00

The sweeping immigration bill outlined by a bipartisan group of eight senators this week represents the most comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. immigration system in more than a quarter-century. It's also probably Congress' best chance this year to...

Powerful poison Ricin found in letter sent to U.S. senator

2013-04-16 17:30:00

WASHINGTON -- An envelope laced with the lethal poison Ricin and addressed to a U.S. senator was found at a Maryland mail processing facility, officials said Tuesday. The envelope, intended for the office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), was discovered...

Bad luck for Mitch McConnell: Ashley Judd bows out

2013-04-02 03:00:00

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for re-election next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie,...

Let's be grown-ups on gay marriage and assault weapons

2013-03-27 15:53:00

Given the lack of interest in Congress in protecting children from guns, it was nice to hear a grown-up in Washington speak on behalf of kids, any kids — in this case, the nearly 40,000 kids who live with same-sex parents in California. "They want...

Supporters mount campaign to preserve assault weapons ban

2013-03-21 17:50:00

Gov. Martin O'Malley and gun-control advocates launched an offensive Thursday to protect his proposed ban on assault-type weapons from a House committee's efforts to scale it back. "Military-style assault weapons belong on the battlefield, NOT on the...

Obama's economic policies will destroy the country

2013-03-18 12:45:00

Only among The Sun's editors and the Democratic Party is the 3.5 percent annual growth in the federal budget proposed by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan considered "egregious" ("Unbalanced budgeting," March 14). Representative Ryan's plan to spend "only"...

Fixing the filibuster

2013-03-10 05:00:00

The filibuster is back in the news, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul's nearly 13-hour talkathon on U.S. drone policy last week. Putting aside the merits of Mr. Paul's national security views, his feat of endurance was in the best tradition of the Senate. He...

Sequestration was Obama's idea; now he doesn't like it?

2013-03-07 07:30:00

I was dismayed by your recent, misleading article on the Republican's responsibility for the budget sequester (The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). Jack Lew, the White House chief of staff and budget director, set up the sequester in 2011, and Rob Nabors,...

Sequester is proof of Obama's incompetence

2013-02-28 08:15:00

Regarding your recent editorial on the impending across-the-board cuts in federal spending, since the "sequester" plan originally was introduced by the White House, to call it a "GOP sequester" is a misnomer ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). If we had any...

Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) after the Senate vote Wednesday on expanded background checks on firearms purchases.

2013-04-18 00:00:00

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) stands on Capitol Hill in Washington in this February 28, 2013, file photo.

2013-03-19 00:00:00

Why: Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama�s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.

2013-03-13 00:00:00