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WASHINGTON – A solution honoring the beingness and bequest of the precocious Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada has been passed with unanimous consent by the U.S. Senate.
Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, some Nevada Democrats, introduced the resolution, which was co-sponsored by the full Senate. It passed precocious Thursday.
Reid served 4 decades successful nationalist service, including 30 years successful Senate, wherever helium served arsenic bulk person from 2007 until 2015. He near the Senate successful 2017 and returned to Nevada with his woman of 62 years, Landra.
He was instrumental successful transition of the Affordable Care Act, and halting improvement of a atomic discarded repository astatine Yucca Mountain.
Reid died Dec. 28 astatine 82 successful his Henderson location pursuing a years’ agelong conflict with pancreatic cancer.
A memorial work successful Las Vegas is scheduled Saturday. President Joe Biden, archetypal woman Jill Biden, and legislature leaders are expected to attend.
Former President Barack Obama is to present the eulogy.
“Harry Reid dedicated his beingness to serving Nevada,” Cortez Masto said. “His hard enactment and dedication to fairness and equality volition ne'er beryllium forgotten successful the halls of Congress, oregon successful the Silver State.”
Added Rosen: “Senator Reid was a root of inspiration and pridefulness for Nevada and our federation arsenic helium fought to amended the lives of millions of Americans.”
The solution lists Reid’s “long bequest of accomplishments,” Rosen noted.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced that Reid volition prevarication successful authorities successful the Capitol Rotunda adjacent week.
Reid is the archetypal Nevadan to beryllium truthful honored, according to the designer of the Capitol.
Contact Gary Martin astatine gmartin@reviewjournal.com. Follow @garymartindc connected Twitter.
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