JUST IN: Biden hails Harry Reid as one of the 'all-time great Senate Majority Leaders'
Then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and then-Vice President Joe Biden at a December 2016 event on Capitol Hill . Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Imagesat age 82, for being one of the "all-time great Senate Majority Leaders."that "for Harry, it wasn't about power for power’s sake. It was about the power to do right for the people."
A tweet previously embedded here has been deleted or was tweeted from an account that has been suspended or deleted. During the two decades he and Reid served in the Senate, and the eight years they worked together when he was vice president, "Harry met the marker for what I’ve always believed is the most important thing by which you can measure a person — their action and their word," Biden said.
"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," the president added. "Under his watch as Senate Majority Leader, Harry helped pass the Recovery Act to prevent another Great Depression. He helped rescue the American auto industry. He helped pass the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, ended Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and ratified the New Start Treaty."
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