–Senate Majority Leader Says Fall Session Will Be ‘Very Short’
–Sen. Reid: Romney-Ryan Back ‘Failed’ GOP Policies
–Sen. Reid: U.S. Econ Is ‘Making Progress. We Wish We Could Do Better’
By John Shaw
WASHINGTON (MNI) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid opened the
Senate’s fall session Monday by ridiculing the Republican presidential
and vice presidential ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, setting a
tone that is likely to dominate Congress’s deliberations in September.
In opening remarks on the Senate floor, Reid welcomed the Senate
back from its five week summer recess and then immediately began
hammering away at Ryan and Romney.
He compared Ryan’s various budgets with his erroneous recollection
of his marathon running time in which he first said he ran the 26 miles
in about three hours and then later amended that recollection to about
four hours.
Reid said the Romney-Ryan fiscal plan is based on the same kind of
“fictious math.”
Reid said the American economy has made progress under the
leadership of President Obama, but has been hampered by relentless
opposition from Republicans.
“We’re making progress. We wish we could do better,” Reid said.
He blamed the GOP for “failed economic policies that brought us to
the Great Recession.”
Reid said little about the pre-election Senate schedule other than
that it will be “very short and compact.”
He said the Senate will vote Monday evening on a judge and then
hold a vote Tuesday on a motion to take up a veterans’ jobs bill.
** MNI Washington Bureau: (202) 371-2121 **
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