Taking stock of Harry Reid’s year
With the dust starting to settle on the 110th Congress, The New York Times takes stock of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada in this piece.
Besides winning a re-election that few people believed he could pull off, Reid achieved "a raft of legislative victories on a chamber best known recently for gridlock," the Times said.
The paper’s count included health care reform, new Wall Street regulations, the economic stimulus bill, the Obama-GOP tax cut bill, and the repeal over this weekend of the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy.
“I don’t have people saying ‘he’s the greatest speaker,’ ‘he’s handsome,’ ‘he’s a man about town,’ ” Reid told the paper. “But I don’t really care. I feel very comfortable with my place in history.”