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Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (AP Photo)

Sen. Reid endorses expanding background checks on gun purchases

Last updated Monday, February 4, 2013 - 10:28am

WASHINGTON — The Senate’s top Democrat offered fresh details Sunday about his position in the renewed debate over guns, as he endorsed expanding background checks on gun sales and promised to consider bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks with reporters following a Democratic strategy session at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

NRA snub could push Reid closer to Obama on gun control

Paul Kane The Washington Post

Last updated Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 10:31am

WASHINGTON — The success of President Barack Obama’s starkly liberal second-term agenda will rest largely on the shoulders of Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, who has been a rock-solid political ally and a valued legislative tactician for Obama during his first term.

But for the first time since Obama became president four years ago, his political interests and Reid’s may be diverging. Not so much because there is huge disagreement on the president’s agenda, but because helping Obama may hurt vulnerable Democrats in the Senate.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Does Reid's attack on Romney show a Mormon split?

Stephen Stromberg The Washington Post

Last updated Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 10:04am

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has repurposed an argument recently made by Greg Prince, who, like Reid, is a Mormon: Mitt Romney’s dismissive comments about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income tax do not adequately represent the spirit of a faith "whose official mantra is ’to take care of the poor and needy throughout the world.’ "

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In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., and his wife Landra take the stage at the Nevada State Democratic election night party in Las Vegas. Landra Reid, the wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer and is receiving chemotherapy. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Harry Reid's wife diagnosed with breast cancer

Lisa Mascaro Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, September 30, 2011 - 5:31pm

WASHINGTON -- The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer and is undergoing treatment, including chemotherapy, in Washington, D.C., the senator's office confirmed Friday.

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New center at SUU being named for Sen. Reid

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, August 28, 2011 - 5:42pm

CEDAR CITY -- Southern Utah University is naming a new center that will study public lands for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

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