Harry Reid tells senators ‘sit down and shut up’
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) is known to have a bit of a mouth, and it showed Thursday on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Moments before failing to advance a transportation spending measure, Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) were attempting to make some final statements, but their colleagues were in a chatty mood and speaking at a level that made it difficult to hear the two senators from their podiums.
Murray then asked Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), who was presiding over the Senate, to bring the chamber into order.
“The Senate is not in order,” Murray said to Baldwin.
Baldwin agreed, repeating: “The Senate is not in order.”
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“Madam president, have everyone sit down and shut up. It’s unfair,” Reid said. “Sen. Collins has something to say, it’s just not polite.”
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