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Harry Reid, Senate Leader Who Guided Obama’s Agenda, Dies at 82
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0:38Now PlayingHarry Reid, the Democratic U.S. Senate majority leader who helped implement President Barack Obama’s legislative agenda by rounding up votes to pass Obamacare, the 2009 economic stimulus package and regulation of the financial industry, has died. He was 82.
Reid’s wife, Landra, said in a statement that the cause was pancreatic cancer.
President Joe Biden, who served with Reid in the Senate, said in a statement late Tuesday night that “if Harry said he would do something, he did it. If he gave you his word, you could bank on it. That’s how he got things done for the good of the country for decades.”
Nevada voters first elected Reid to the Senate in 1986. He won four more terms, and became majority leader in 2007, the year before Obama’s election.
After having no luck with a bipartisan approach to approving Obama’s top priority, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, he pushed through the law expanding health insurance coverage known as Obamacare with no Republican votes.
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