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WASHINGTON, D.C.–Sen. Harry Reid sent a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell explaining the path forward on health insurance reform today. In the letter, Reid details the steps that Senate Democrats have taken to secure bipartisan support for health reform despite the lack of cooperation from Senate Republicans.
Reid said he will...
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WASHINGTON, DC–Sen. Harry Reid today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $4.7 million in grant funding to increase access to health care services for underserved Nevadans.
Clark County Social Services will receive $4,233,896 from the HIV Emergency Relief Project Grants Program, while the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe will receive...
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SUBMITTED RELEASE FROM NEVADA STATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
By Phoebe Sweet
Las Vegas, NV – Once again the GOP is rooting for our economy to fail, betting against America and Nevada because it’s good for Republican politics.
“As you look to the beginning of 2010, I think unemployment in Nevada will spike even higher. I think this is...
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WASHINGTON, DC–Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign today sent a letter to National Guard Bureau Chief General Craig R. McKinley asking that the Hawthorne Army Depot be considered for addition to a list of sites to host counter improvised explosive device-defeat training. Reid and Ensign cited HWAD’s location as being “an...
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Sharron Angle (R-NV), a conservative former state legislator running to replace Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), said Friday that Reid was more concerned about the existence of chickens and lizards and less about the existence of new jobs for Nevadans.
Referring to a document by the Department of Interior that was marked “Internal Draft–Not...
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WASHINGTON, DC–Today Sen. Harry Reid visited the FIRST Robotics Regional Competition at the Washington Convention Center. Accompanied by Founder Dean Kamen, Reid observed a variety of robotics competitions and interacted first-hand with the robot developed by the Eureka County High School team, The Vandals. The team members from Nevada included Ari Lohnes,...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Sen. Harry Reid today announced that Nevada will receive $5.1 million in grants from the Department of Transportation. The South Tahoe Area Transit Authority will receive $2.1 million for three new buses and support equipment from the funding, which comes from the Recovery Act. Additionally Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Nevada Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign today announced a $5 million grant from the Department of Transportation to rehabilitate the ramp at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. The funding will create 200 jobs and allow the airport to operate at a higher level for years to come.
“I want to thank the Department...
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WASHINGTON, DC–Today Sen. Harry Reid met with two representatives of the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority: Airport Director Krys Bart and former Nevada Congressman Jon Porter. They discussed the airport’s funding needs for the upcoming budget year. The airport is looking to build an emergency operations center in place of the outdated manager’s office...
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Remarks by Sen. Harry Reid Tuesday, March 2, 2010:
I know this award is not just recognition of what we’ve done together in the past–that it is really a call to action for the future.
As I accept this honor, I also accept that responsibility.
Jobs
We must keep fighting and keep moving forward because too...
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