Senator Harry Reid has hinted that he might in the next few days use the nuclear option to secure the confirmation of Richard Cordray as Director of the CFPB.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attacked Sen. Ted Cruz Monday for opposing Reid’s efforts to appoint members to a House-Senate conference to resolve differences in the two chambers’ budget resolution. Over the past two days,

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) shot down an objection from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) Monday, calling him a "schoolyard bully" for trying to insert...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told radio host Rusty Humphries on Thursday that he agreed with Sen. Max Baucus that the Affordable Care Act could...

As delayed travelers and even airline companies begin to bemoan the effects of forced federal budget cuts on air travel, the Senate has once again turned its attention to possible ways to delay or halt sequestration.  And Senate Majority Le

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) leveled a surprising charge at Republicans Wednesday: "They like the pain" of sequestration. Reid was responding to...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday pulled Democrats' gun-control bill from the floor, saying he's hitting "pause" to work on it more. On Wednesday, senators defeated an amendment that would have expanded backgro

Republican Minority Leader Mitch wasted no time mocking his Democratic counterpart Harry Reid Wednesday over the Senate's failure to pass a bipartisan gun control bill that would have expanded background checks for gun purchases.  Moments after

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is setting up online sales tax legislation for a possible vote on the Senate floor after the chamber completes work on gun legislation.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he would support a new ban on assault weapons as an amendment to pending gun control legislation.  ""I will vote for Dianne Feinstein's assault weapons ban," Reid said in an impassioned speec

Senate Democrats will move forward on new gun control legislation Thursday, taking what will likely be their last shot at overcoming Republican opposition.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he will file cloture on the bill ton

As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union now says it’s among those who have “serious concerns” about the bill. Those concerns have the capacity to prove a

Senate Majority Harry Reid and former boxing great Mike Tyson met this week in Reid's office before officially launching a campaign urging President Barack Obama to posthumously pardon boxing great Jack Johnson. The unlikely duo are teaming up to pro

With a new video released Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid aims pressure certain Senate Republicans into supporting universal background checks as part of comprehensive gun control legislation.  The two-minute video features clips of va

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough delivered Republicans a warning during a substantial rant on "Morning Joe" Friday, telling Republicans they would be foolish to oppose stronger background check laws.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Thursday th

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Senate on Wednesday afternoon will take a final vote on a bill to keep the federal government funded through September, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said. If passed by the Senate and later by the House, the so-cal

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) raised questions on Tuesday about the effects of sequestration, moments after invoking a Monday training accident that killed seven...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday said he would arrange floor votes on President Barack Obama's nominees to run the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "sometime after

Barack Obama will meet with John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid at the White House on the day sequestration takes effect

For the first time ever, a Presidential nomination for Secretary of Defense has been filibustered, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lamented this morning on the Senate floor. Reid said that the Senate will vote Friday on his confirmation. "In less t

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has had plenty of criticism for 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, but during an appearance on ABC's "This Week,"...

Harry Reid said today on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos that any deal to solve the looming batch of budget fights must, "without question," include more forms of revenue as a means to further deficit reduction. Reid set up the prospect

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he expects the Senate on Thursday to pass a House-approved bill to suspend the U.S. debt ceiling until May 19. Reid on Thursday morning said he expects a "strong, bipartisan vote" lat

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that the Senate will vote sometime this week on the House-passed bill to suspend the debt ceiling, allowing the Treasury to borrow whatever it needs to fund the government through May 18.  The bi

Senate Democrats are considering swapping looming automatic spending cuts with a series of incremental cuts, if they are coupled with measures to raise revenue, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Senate Democrats are mulling moving ahead with automatic budget cuts -- known as the sequester -- in "short increments," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday. Reid said that those short-term cuts should be couple

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Senate will vote "later this week" on a House-passed bill to temporarily suspend the U.S. debt ceiling, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday. The House bill, approved last week, would suspend the debt ceiling

Buried deep in the bowels of the much-heralded last-minute fiscal-cliff deal, that saved us from a fate worse than death and raised taxes on 77% of Americans, was a quiet little provision, inserted at the last minute, that sharply slashed Medicare pa

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the right moves on filibuster reform.

No sooner had the House got its 212 votes to pass the debt-ceiling extension "No Budget, No Pay" bill then Silver and US equities began to rise. At the same time, WTI started to crack lower. Now it is over to Harry Reid and the promised 'smooth saili

* Gun-rights advocate Reid will decide what Senate will voteon

The Democratically-controlled U.S. Senate will not be a free-for-all of new gun regulations following the shooting at Sandy Hook, according to Majority Leader Harry Reid. Instead, Senators will focus on passing legislation that can move through the R

Sen. David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana, blasted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and called him an "idiot" for comparing the scopes of Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina on the Senate floor last week. "Sadly, Harry Reid has again revealed himself

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has privately told other Democrats, including President Obama, that if the administration used its constitutional and executive...

House Speaker John Boehner couldn’t hold back when he spotted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the White House lobby last Friday. It was only a few days before the nation would go over the fiscal cliff, no bipartisan agreement was in sight, and

At Politico, John Bresnahan, Carrie Budoff Brown, Manu Raju at Jake Sherman have a great story on how the Fiscal Cliff talks started, broke down, revived, and then nearly broke down again. The basic story is that in the beginning, there was actually

If Harry Reid feels weary now he ought to be looking ahead with dread, says Richard McGregor

Harry Reid: Two sides remain divided in fiscal-cliff talks

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Monday thatcongressional negotiators still need to bridge differences inlast-ditch talks to avert a New Year's Day tax hike on mostAmericans.

NEW YORK, Dec 31 (Reuters) - The euro fell against thedollar to hit near session lows on Monday as Senate MajorityLeader Harry Reid said differences remained between theDemocrats and Republicans...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- There are "still issues that need to be resolved" to avert the looming fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday morning. Reid said that negotiations are continuing Mond

UPDATE: ES scrambled up to Flash-Crash lows at 1391.5 No Deal; No Deal. The updates came thick and fast and almost entirely full of nothing until Harry Reid called a halt to proceedings: *REID SAYS SENATE WILL RESUME WORK AT 11 A.M. TOMORROW *REID S

President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders are set to meet this afternoon at the White House, facing about a 100-hour deadline before the looming fiscal cliff. Obama will meet at 3 p.m. with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minori

Washington held markets hostage on Thursday as the fiscal cliff continues to dominate the news.  The Dow fell more than 100 points in early trading after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid suggested it was very likely the U.S. economy would go ov

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- President Barack Obama is due to meet with congressional leaders on Friday, according to several media reports Thursday. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Republican leader Mitch McCon

UPDATE: ES -7 after-hours from closing highs (McConnell-Off) Equity markets started the day off slowly but with confidence disappointing and Harry Reid's name-calling, not even the arrival of the chosen one was enough to juice anything but a minimal

The president telephoned congressional leaders, including Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, for updates on budget talks. Meanwhile, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, said there may not be enough time to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.

Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, criticized House Republicans for not approving a Senate-passed measure to extend lower tax rates on some households and said a compromise seemed to be out of reach.

Stock declines steepen after Harry Reid remarks on Senate floor: MW Radio

Stock markets dropped and consumer confidence fell to multi-month lows as the fiscal cliff negotiations have completely stalled.  On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused House Speaker John Boehner of caring more about his career t