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Highlights from the political career of Harry Reid, former Senate majority leader

By Associated Press

Dec. 28, 2021

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From left, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee which considers judicial nominations, and the Senate Democratic leadership, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., and Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., hold a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 14, 2016, calling on the Republican leadership to allow a confirmation hearing for Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s choice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
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King Abdullah II of Jordan meets with Senate Leaders, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. David Perdue R-Ga., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., and Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,, left, and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., stand on stage at the Battle Born Battleground First in the West Caucus Dinner, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Las Vegas.
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In this Nov. 7, 2014 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., right, listens as President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Congressional leaders in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Reid is announcing he will not seek re-election to another term. The 75-year-old Reid says in a statement issued by his office Friday that he wants to make sure Democrats regain control of the Senate next year and that it would be "inappropriate" for him to soak up campaign resources when he could be focusing on putting the Democrats back in power.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his leadership office at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Never one to back down from a political fight, the five-term Nevada Democrat has been relentlessly pounding Republicans over their insistence that President Barack Obama’s successor fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. The GOP remains unified.
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President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev., wave to members of the audience at the National Clean Energy Summit at the Mandalay Bay Resort Convention Center, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, in Las Vegas. The President used the speech to announce a set of executive actions and private sector commitments to accelerate America’s transition to cleaner sources of energy and ways to cut energy waste.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., talks with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., during a photo opportunity on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2016, before their meeting.
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In this June 9, 2016, photo, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Reid says he wishes he could stay in the U.S. Senate forever. So he is doing the next best thing as he heads into retirement after more than three decades: Working the inside game to ensure he leaves Democrats in control of the Senate, the White House and his home state of Nevada next year. Reid hand-picked the Democratic candidate to replace him, former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, who is capitalizing on Donald Trump’s unpopularity with Hispanics by playing up the fact that she would be the first Latina ever elected to the Senate.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives for a meeting with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 14, 2016. From left are, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev., Clinton, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin off Ill.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., is escorted to the podium by wife Landra before speaking during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Wednesday, July 27, 2016.
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Then-President Barack Obama, right, speaks with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, at the 20th Anniversary Lake Tahoe Summit, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Stateline, Nev. Obama spoke about the environment and climate change.
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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev. speaks to reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., votes at an early voting site Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, in Las Vegas. When Sen. Harry Reid cast the last vote he’ll make as a U.S. Senator, he did it in a Las Vegas Strip early voting site surrounded by casino workers in the Culinary Union.
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Outgoing Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks with reporters along with Nevada's newly elected Congressional Democrates on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 14, 2016.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., listens during a media availability after the Senate Policy Luncheon on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016 in Washington.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, smiles as Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., poses her for a photograph during a ceremony to unveil a portrait of Reid, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, in Washington.
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Then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, hugs Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., during a ceremony to unveil a portrait Reid, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, in Washington.
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In this Dec. 6, 2016 file photo Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. answers questions from the media on Capitol Hill in Washington. A bipartisan team of political leaders in Nevada is planning to host a national conversation on clean energy this fall. Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday, July 12, 2017, announced the annual Las Vegas summit would be held Oct. 13.
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In this June 20, 2016 file photo, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., left, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., listen as Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, center, speaks during a media availability on Capitol Hill in Washington. A divided Senate blocked rival election-year plans to curb guns, eight days after Orlando's mass shooting intensified pressure on lawmakers to act but knotted them in gridlock anyway - even over restricting firearms for terrorists. On Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that in 2016, Republicans in the Senate voted unanimously to ban people who were on the FBI’s terror watch list from buying guns, while every single Democrat voted against it.
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Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to reporters in the Capitol after winning election by his Democratic peers as the new Senate minority leader, on Nov. 16, 2004, in Washington. Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., delivers a speech at the YearlyKos convention in Las Vegas on June 10, 2006. Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 26, 2007. Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82.
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Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nev., discusses the results of Tuesday's election during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006. Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82.
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Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid tips his hat during a fundraiser for the Nevada Democratic Party, on Nov. 17, 2019, in Las Vegas. Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82.

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