[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of fun the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker s rooms, washington, d.c. january 13, 2022. i hereby appoint the honorable brenda l. lawrence to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi. speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me. holy and omnipotent god we stand before you, vulnerable to your power at work within and around us. like precious metal we are being forged. tested like silver. formed by your creative hands. in these moments may we trust that you are refining u
basically a shack, and no running water. he fought himself out of there, and hitchhiking in order to get to high school in henderson, nevada, and the fact that he came from there, and clawed his way up in politics, was the reason why he said to me and probably manu, and you, kate, and jeff, many times that he wanted to fight as hard as he could for what he saw as his prime legislative legacy, which is obama care, an pushing hard to make sure that it happened. you saw over the weekend when president obama was eulogizing him, and he said point blank, obama care would not be the law of the land without harry reid s knowledge of the senate rules, and the knowledge of the senators that he worked with, and how to work them, and how not to work them. i ll just say that it is because of what he saw in his own family, the lack of health care, and his brother having a broken leg and writhing in pain, and having to wait it out because they did not have health care, and that is what push
a child of search light, nevada. he was born into poverty and worked his way up to the highest seat of senate power. serving a decade as this top senate democrat that includes a hugely consequential stint as senate majority leader. in moments we ll hear from people who worked closely with reid at some of the most consequential moments of his career. plus how his legacy is living on today. in an ongoing fight over the filibuster. leigh ann caldwell is joining me from the capitol. also with us, former communications director for senator reid. he had a front row seat to the 2009 affordable care act negotiations and the 2010 midterms. and a former reid staffer, now the national political director of invisible, indivisible, i should say, and former vice president of politics and campaigns for voto latino. they are awaiting former senate majority leader reid s remains to be to walked into the rotunda. as we await that, i want to talk about what we re expecting to see today as we
talk us through what we have been hearing so far in memorializing, eulogizing the former senate majority leader. reporter: good afternoon, yasmin. yeah, so, i m outside the smith performing arts center. it s a beautiful performing arts center inside where there are hundreds of people who came to invite only, actually, to honor the late senator. many of these people have worked for him over his long career in washington, and many of them are friends or people who have been impacted by his life. now, the first hour of this service has been devoted to speeches from his children. he has a very large family, five children, and of course, they have been talking mostly about the person of senator reid, not the senator, but someone as a father, someone who they admired extremely deeply, someone who they were close with until his final days. of course, after he left washington, senator reid came back to las vegas to southern nevada. he grew up just about 45 miles outside of here in
It’s been just over a year since Sen. Harry Reid’s death, but the legendary Senate leader’s impact continues to be felt even after he has left this mortal coil.