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To take heat from his own party for cutting deals. >> compromise is not weakness. consensus building is a strength. >> reporter: he told me he in no regrets to do away with senate rules to do away with the filibuster, despite president donald trump benefiting with three supreme court justices. >> i have no doubt i did the right thing. >> reporter: in recent years he backed further changes to the filibuster, urging democrats to finish the job he started. reid reveled in playing the political bad guy. he saw it as taking a punch for the greater good. >> i don't really care. i don't want to be so...

With a crowd. but he was a master of political hand-to-hand combat. there was two personalities going on there. >> yes. you're absolutely correct about that. the public harry reid wasn't that different from the private harry reid. the difference is, in the senate, it actually is an advantage to be low key, someone who doesn't take the spotlight, and doesn't overshadow other senators, and gets things done. harry reid was perfect for that. you know, we had for most of his tenure as majority leader, six of the eight years, we had a very charismatic president, barack obama. obama simply needed rei...

She is really a consensus builder. she spent years traveling by car. building relationships with local officials at every level, running up and down the ballot, and she is a consensus building. i think she also has a very clear understanding of the massive challenges ahead. it is the districts about how to manage that. and from the biden rescue plan that is locked up in albany because of gridlock during this time, and i think she is eager to get things moving forward. >> already facing some questions among other things, potential conflicts of interest. saying hocul is married, now

Agenda The Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress will hold a hearing titled “Enhancing Committee Productivity through Consensus Building,” on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. in 2360 Rayburn. Witnesses:  Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Representative Fred Upton (R-MI), both senior House members, worked together to pass the 21st Century Cures Act, which was later signed into law. The passage of this bill was widely considered a bipartisan victory due to its scope and unanimous support in committee. Jenness Simler served as professional staff on the House Armed Servi...

The Virginia High School League announced this week the continuation of the InsideOut Initiative program.