scranton, pennsylvania, and a latterday saint from searchlight. you think i m kidding. harry was like the guys i grew up with back in scranton and claymont, delaware. harry would always have your back, like the guys i grew up with. harry had mind, and he knew i had his. although i sometimes wondered, when i was trying to make an important point to harry about whether he really did have my back, as he hung up. but to tell the truth, every time every time he would do it, i knew it was the real harry. it was him. he had all he needed. he didn t want any more or need any more. we did share some similarities. barack said, we have loving families, wives who are smarter and better-looking than we were.
special lot in life you. think about trade politics, his fight for social security, a fight for health care, community health centers funding. those were the things he was proudest about. hey, for people who are struggling out there, and i don t think he ever forgot growing up in nevada and searchlight and all around it, these are the people who are at the foremost in front of his mind as the people we fight for in politics, i think that sends sometimes gets dissipated in a politics that is controlled by money. it has a lot of corporate influence. harry reid was cut from an old-school cloth. hey we come from hard scrabble tough backgrounds and we don t forget who those people were, and that is who we are here to serve. especially as you go forward, what is the build back better agenda about? it s really fundamentally here is a working families budget. here is what working families need. they need paid leave. they need pre-k and child care, the child tax credit, et cetera. that is what
know, an intuitive sense of a fight. he liked the fight. he embraced the fight. he embraced friction. you remember the government shutdown of 2013 was one of our biggest, finest moments. he kind of led the party and said hey, we re being bullied. we re being bullied by ted cruz. we re being bullied by republicans. we give in now they re only going to come back worse later. i think many people were nervous about it. he said we re going shut this down for 16 days until they completely, fully come to our position that is what happened. the changing of the senate rules. his positions on trade over time. they all came from a place i think of a sense of never forgetting where he came from, a working class background, that kid from searchlight, but also wanting a fight, embracing a fight. i personally love it. he was never somebody who i need 100% of people to love me. 50 plus one gets the job done. for that reason he was almost the best ally you could hope for. because he was always thinking
his lawyers say he tested positive for coronavirus. more than 150,000 people in the uk have now died within 28 days of a positive covid test since the pandemic began. it s the first country in western europe to reach the figure. the funeral service for former us senate majority leader, harry reid, has taken place in las vegas. the 82 year old died nearly two weeks ago, after a four year battle with pancreatic cancer. he served in congress for more than four decades. former president, barack 0bama delivered the eulogy. few people have done more for this state and this country than this driven, brilliant, sometimes irascible, deeply good man from searchlight, nevada. the newjames webb space telescope has fully deployed in space, the final step of its two week deployment phase that began with its launch on christmas day.
and for a long time to come, and what do you think that the lasting legacy of harry reid s influence is going to be? very complicated one. it is one that he relished in, that he was a complicated man, a complicated politician, and a complicated legislator, and it all comes with how he grew up. so many tales of americans kind of living the american dream coming from nothing and reaching the top of this country, but there are few as storied and real and raw as harry reid. the fact they went to searchlight, nevada, and the truckstop, and desert town outside of las vegas and i saw the town where he grew up, and