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NH Primary Source: Nevada first-primary bill now places state in conflict with NH law, national party rules Share Updated: 2:19 AM EDT May 6, 2021
NH Primary Source: Nevada first-primary bill now places state in conflict with NH law, national party rules Share Updated: 2:19 AM EDT May 6, 2021 IT’S ON. As we forecast nearly three months ago, a bill introduced in the Nevada Legislature setting up an early presidential primary has now been amended to directly take on New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation status. When introduced in February by Nevada Assembly Speaker James Frierson with the support of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the bill s language was at odds with the message of its sponsor. The bill confusingly talked about holding the first primary in the West – not the nation – in late January of presidential election years. When we reported this apparently incongruity between the stated intent of the bill
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Fmr. Democratic Senator and Majority Leader Harry Reid joins MSNBC s Brian Williams and discusses the fight within the Republican party over Liz Cheney s refusal to support Trump s false claim that he won the 2020 election.May 5, 2021
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Biden is talking to Republicans, but for only so long
The president and much of his team learned a lesson during the Obama years: They should not wait for Republicans to negotiate.
President Joe Biden believes action is more important than bipartisanship, aides and lawmakers say, and is convinced Americans will support him in his efforts. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo
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As vice president, Joe Biden was among those repeatedly pushing President Barack Obama to negotiate with Republicans on everything from health care to fiscal crises even if it led to delays, watered-down policies or nothing at all.
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FORMER Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he believes a former US defense contractor had alien debris in its possession.
The ex-Nevada Senator said he never actually saw proof of the crashed UFO remnants but did try to get approval from the Pentagon to find them.
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He said the defense contractor Lockheed Martin had debris from a UFO crashCredit: Reuters I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials, Reid, 81, told the New Yorker of defense contractor Lockheed Martin. And I tried to get, as I recall, a classified approval by the Pentagon to have me go look at the stuff, he said.
Carl P. Leubsdorf
To many Americans, the rules that permit the Senateâs majority to be held hostage by its minority represent the worst of all worlds, making an inherently undemocratic legislative body even more so.
As a result, since the late 1940s, successive generations of liberal senators have regularly sought to revise the procedures for limiting extended Senate debate â known as a filibuster â that enable a minority of senators to keep the majority from acting.
The debate was renewed this year because the Senateâs slim Democratic majority â 50 senators plus Vice President Kamala Harris â fears that, without rules reform, the Republican minority will block many of its measures that polls show most Americans support â election reform, gun control, an increased minimum wage, higher taxes on the wealthy and revision of immigration laws.