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Posted Jan 6, 2022, 12:02 pm
TucsonSentinel.com
Flags will be flown at half-staff on Friday and Saturday to mark the death of a Casa Grande police officer from COVID-19, and for the funeral of former U.S. Senator Harry Reid.... Read more»
Posted Dec 29, 2021, 7:57 am
Nate MacKay
/Courthouse News Service
Harry Reid, the former majority leader in the U.S. Senate and longtime fixture in Nevada and national politics, died Tuesday at the age of 82 after battling pancreatic cancer in the years since his retirement from the Senate in 2017. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 14, 2015, 2:20 pm
Dave Levitan
/FactCheck
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has said at least twice that climate change is causing bears in the Sierra Nevada mountains to change their hibernation patterns. There is no evidence that climate change is actually having such an effect.... Read more»
Posted Jun 13, 2014, 1:40 pm
Patrick Oakford
/Center for American Progress
Second-generation immigrants are the driving force behind the growth of the Latino electorate. As immigrants and their children make up a larger share of this electorate, immigration reform will become an even more pressing policy issue for the Latino electorate. ... Read more»
Posted Jun 9, 2014, 11:07 am
David Levinthal
/Center for Public Integrity
The conservative billionaire's massive grant to the United Negro College Fund is nothing new.... Read more»
Posted Apr 14, 2014, 3:59 pm
Nicholas Kusnetz
/Center for Public Integrity
Lindsey Graham, Sheldon Adelson and a colorful cast of characters jockey over regulation.
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Posted Mar 8, 2014, 5:51 pm
Lori Robertson
/FactCheck.org
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wrongly blamed the conservative group Americans for Prosperity for promoting a “false” story of a woman whose insurance premiums went up $700 per month. AFP didn’t feature that woman’s story in any of its ads.... Read more»
Posted Jan 29, 2014, 11:39 am
Mauro Whiteman
/Cronkite News Service
President Obama’s State of the Union address renewed calls for comprehensive immigration reform and action on economic opportunity, including an increased minimum wage and extended unemployment insurance benefits. But Republicans in Arizona’s congressional delegation quickly attacked the speech not just for what the president wants to do but how he vowed to do it.... Read more»
Posted Jan 12, 2014, 12:25 pm
Lori Robertson
/FactCheck.org
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid incorrectly claimed that 9 million Americans “have health care that didn’t have it before” because of the Affordable Care Act. That figure includes an unknown number who previously had insurance but switched to a policy sold through the exchanges, plus an unknown number of Medicaid recipients who renewed their coverage.... Read more»
Posted Nov 21, 2013, 5:38 pm
Chad Garland
/Cronkite News Service
Warren Kooyaquaptewa did not live long enough to be honored by his country for his military service, but his daughter said Wednesday that the Hopi man would have been proud to see that day finally come. Kooyaquaptewa was one of more than 200 Native American code talkers, including 12 men from three Arizona tribes, to be honored with Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday.... Read more»
Posted Jun 28, 2013, 2:55 pm
Talia Ralph
/Global Post
"It's landmark legislation that will secure our borders and help 11 million people get right with the law," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said of the bill.
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Posted Apr 15, 2013, 6:39 pm
Robert Farley
/Factcheck.org
Sen. John Cornyn alleged President Obama has told the families of Newtown shooting victims that the Republican party “doesn’t really care about their loss.” But Obama never actually said that.... Read more»
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Posted Feb 24, 2013, 6:00 pm
D'Angelo Gore
/Factcheck.org
This Republican talking point aims to blame President Obama for more than $1 trillion in automatic, across-the-board cuts in domestic and defense spending that — without action by Congress — are scheduled to take effect on March 1.... Read more»
Posted Jan 30, 2013, 5:25 pm
Philip E. Wolgin & Marshall Fitz/Center for American Progress
The president, Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and the American people are all pushing for comprehensive immigration reform. Now is the time to pass it. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 21, 2013, 12:40 pm
Connor Radnovich
/Cronkite News Service
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton joined other mayors who criticized Washington leaders for their inability to act on a budget. The mayors fear that the failure to reach a budget agreement could cripple local economies, if drastic spending cuts are allowed to kick in this spring.... Read more»
Posted Jul 17, 2012, 8:05 am
Rachael Marcus
/Center for Public Integrity
A bill that would require groups that run political ads attacking candidates to disclose their donors fell nine votes short of moving ahead Monday night in the U.S. Senate.... Read more»