WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just took a spin in Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room on CNN and proffered these caucus-inspired nuggets.
On former White House aide Karl Rove’s Wall Street Journal piece blasting Sen. Barrack Obama’s lack of Senate accomplishments: “Karl Rove, as usual, was wrong.” Reid went on to laud Obama’s work […]

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WASHINGTON — All eyes may be on Nevada, but the big ticket in town here today was the sold-out (well, it was free but you had to RSVP) forum on the economy at Brookings.
The White House and Congress are separately wrangling over the R-word, and whether a stimulus package is needed to fend off a […]

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WASHINGTON — For heads still spinning from Sen. Hillary Clinton’s poll-defying victory in New Hampshire, there are lots of attempts to sort it out this morning.
The Washington Post offers an exhaustive piece dissecting the Clinton campaign.
Here’s the teaser of the lead:
“In a campaign run by conference calls, this one stood out. It was Dec. […]

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WASHINGTON — New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez is leading a delegation from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus into Las Vegas for the Clinton campaign this weekend, reaching out to Nevada’s growing Hispanic population to get out the vote.
A colleague from The Record in New Jersey broke the news just a short time ago on […]

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WASHINGTON — Here’s a quick round-up of interesting finds from the weekend papers in case the holiday cheer kept you away from the press.
The New York Times continues its series on Public Lands in the West with a look Sunday at the surge in off-roading. Here’s the link http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/us/30lands.html?_r=1=slogin and some early graphs from […]

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WASHINGTON _ Much has been said about Sen. Harry Reid’s first year as majority leader, including our package considering his performance in Sunday’s Sun.
But as 2007 comes to a close, the first session of the 110th Congress continues on, at least in the Senate.
Reid, you might recall, stepped off the Senate floor for the holidays […]

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WASHINGTON — This just in: Nevada Sen. John Ensign’s workload in Mississippi was shored up today as the state’s governor announced the appointment of Republican Rep. Roger Wicker to serve out the term of Sen. Trent Lott, the Republican Whip, who stepped down this month.
Lott’s unexpected departure put the state in play for 2008, giving […]

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WASHINGTON — There’s been much speculation about who Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would like to see in the White House afer the 2008 election. With four Democratic senators running, and Nevada holding an early caucus, he has gone to great lengths to profess neutrality.
Even when his son, County Commission Chairman Rory Reid signed on […]

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WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley is in Iraq today, her first-ever trip after five years of war, and the critic of President Bush’s war strategy makes a surprising assessment as she finds signs of hope in once war-torn parts of the country.
“It’s not like we were walking in the park on a […]

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WASHINGTON — Just how badly has the relationship between President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Reid soured?
Reid says he is again planning to hold the Senate in pro-forma session over the holiday break to stop Bush from making recess appointments while senators are away.
Democrats are worried Bush may appoint objectionable nominees, while leaving their own […]

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