Rep. Shelley Berkley announced her endorsement of Sen. Hillary Clinton this morning, praising the former first lady’s positions on Yucca Mountain, health care, veterans, the economy and just about everything else.
Up to now, Berkley has preached neutrality along with Sen. Harry Reid (although his son, Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid heads Clinton’s campaign office.)
Berkley […]

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Sen. Harry Reid and Democratic National Convention CEO Leah Daughtry touch down in Las Vegas Wednesday, the day after the New Hampshire primary. Their agenda: attend a townhall meeting to answer questions about the Nevada caucus, the national convention in Denver and how the public can get involved in both.
It’s the fourth in a […]

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Iowa roundup.
To start off, it’s impossible to overstate how significant last night is to American politics. And also Nevada politics (though you’ll have to wait for the Sun print edition for that analysis.) Voters in Iowa roundly rejected their respective party establishments, as noted in this New York Times analysis.
People want something different.
What […]

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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 — 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 — 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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WASHINGTON — Lest you think Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is going soft after a tough year in Congress, two stories today remind that the guy once described as someone who would kneecap the opposition remains in top form.
First, The New York Times reports that notwithstanding Reid’s appearance alongside Bush at today’s energy bill signing […]

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WASHINGTON — This is how it ends. The long debate over the Iraq war that consumed so much of the new Democratic-run Congress this year, especially in the Senate where Nevada’s Harry Reid is the majority leader, headed tonight toward its quiet conclusion.
Fifty senators voted at about 8:30 p.m. EST for a non-binding “sense of […]

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WASHINGTON — Don’t go looking for a chapter on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in fellow Sen. Trent Lott’s new book.
Lott was holding court in the halls outside the Senate earlier this week opining on the current gridlock that has overtaken Congress, when he went on a riff about the book he plans to write […]

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WASHINGTON — Fully one year after the Bush administration’s Justice Department fired Nevada’s Daniel Bogden in an unprecedented purge of U.S. Attorneys nationwide – leading to the fall of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales — the Senate has confirmed the state’s new top federal prosecutor.
Gregory A. Brower, a former Republican assemblyman in Nevada and one-time official […]

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