Harry Reid

Senator Harry Reid continues to hold his seat as he won the 2010 November elections. He won against opponent Sharron Angle with 50.2% of the votes. Angle received 44.6% of the vote.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/nv/nevada_senate_angle_vs_reid-1517.html

Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada is the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate.http://reid.senate.gov/ Senator Reid is known for holding strong views on health care reform, and for helping to push the controversial Democratic health care bill to victory.http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/21/health.care.main/index.htmlHis latest cause is financial reform, and he is working with president Barack Obama on legislation to implement regulatory reform on Wall Street and prevent future bailouts of financial institutions.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36499063/ns/business-us_business/

Reid was once criticized for comments that he made in 2008 about then-Senator Barack Obama. He reportedly stated that Obama was well-suited for the job and had a very good chance of winning the presidential election because he was a "light skinned" African American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6083103-503544.html The remarks were included in a political expose titled Game Change.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eYOEvpxuiM

Reid was seeking a fifth term in the Senate, having held the position for Nevada since 1987. He was facing Republican Sharron Angle, a former member of the state legislature.http://usliberals.about.com/od/electionreform/tp/2010SenateRaces.02.htm Early polls had the two candidates in a close race.http://usliberals.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=usliberals&cdn=newsissues&tm=226&f=10&tt=3&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/nv/nevada_senate_angle_vs_reid-1517.html On October 13, Reid and Angle met in a debate taped at the PBS Studios in Las Vegas, Nevada.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/14/harry-reid-sharron-angle-debate-nevada-senate_n_763603.html Reid continues as the Senator for the state of Nevada as he won his bid on the seat in the November 2010 elections.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/03/nevada-election-results-2010_n_765994.html

Senator Reid hails from the town of Searchlight, Nevada where he was born to a hardrock mining father. He attended a small school that had only a single teacher for eight grade levels.http://reid.senate.gov/about/ He attended Southern Utah State College, Utah State University and George Washington University.http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Ra-Z/Reid-Harry.html He is married to Landra Gould and has five children and sixteen grandchildren.http://reid.senate.gov/about/

In his political career, his focus has been on helping consumers and working/ middle class families. He has also fought for environmental causes, and as an assemblymen he introduced the first legislation in the history of Nevada to curb air pollution.http://reid.senate.gov/about/

• 1970-1974: Lieutenant Governor of Nevadahttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/r000146/

• 1983-1987: Nevada U.S. House of Representatives, 1st district

• 1986-Present: Nevada Senatorhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/r000146/

• 1999: Democratic Majority Whiphttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/r000146/

• 2005: Senate Minority Leaderhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/r000146/

• 2007-Present: Senate Majority Leaderhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/r000146/