Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterDespite His Party's Majority, Senate Leader Harry Reid Gets Off to a Rough Start
Published 1/8/2009 by Paul Kane at Wash Post In Congress
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) hoped his party would come out of the gates hot this year, but this wasn't what he had in mind.
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