Former US Senate majority leader Harry Reid dies at age 82 | Malay Mail

WASHINGTON, Dec 29 ― Harry Reid, the pugnacious son of a Nevada hard-rock miner who rose from poverty to become the US Senate majority leader and earned a reputation as a fierce partisan fighter during an era of political gridlock in Washington, died yesterday. He was 82.

Reid retired in 2016, one year after suffering broken ribs and facial bones, and injuring an eye in an accident while exercising at home. During Reid's time as majority leader, major legislation languished because Democrats and Republicans could not make compromises. His relationship with McConnell was so strained that the Republican leader shunned Reid during crucial US fiscal policy talks and dealt directly with Vice President Joe Biden.

He apologized in 2010 for referring to Obama, the first black US president, in private conversations two years earlier as “light-skinned” with “no Negro dialect,” saying, “I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.” His mother, who never finished high school, took in laundry from brothels to help out financially. The family lived in a small cabin with no indoor plumbing, hot water or telephone.

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