'Harry got things done,' President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and other lawmakers spoke at late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's memorial service. Reid died Dec. 28 after battling pancreatic cancer.
A running and humorous theme throughout the funeral was ‘Harry Reiding’ — Reid’s habit of abruptly ending telephone conversations without saying goodbye.“I have to tell you, every time I hear a dial tone, I think of Harry,” Biden told mourners.
“Sometimes I even called him back and said ’Harry, I was singing your praises,” Pelosi said. To which Reid replied: “I don’t want to hear it,” she said, before she’d hear the phone click dead again. Reid served for 34 years in Washington and led the Senate through a crippling recession and the Republican takeover of the House after the 2010 elections.
He built a political machine in Nevada that for years helped Democrats win key elections. When he retired in 2016 after an exercise accident at home left him blind in one eye, he picked former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto to replace him.
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