Reid: ‘Mitch McConnell and I Are Friends’
The Senate’s top two leaders took to the floor Thursday morning to affirm their friendship.
After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., gave his opening speech on the Senate floor on the year-end spending and tax package, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., sought to clear the air after Politico reported that the relationship between the two leaders had reached a “new low.”
“I really brush aside most press. I don’t let it bother me. But once in a while something comes along that does,” Reid said as he took out a copy of the newspaper. “And there was an article in one of the Hill newspapers this day that really troubled me.”
“Mitch McConnell and I are friends,” Reid said.
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McConnell responded, telling Reid, “I share your frustration, I would say to my friend, over an article like that. Because I think there’s a tendency to think that you can’t have political arguments without developing personal animosity. And I don’t have any toward my friend.”
Although the pair insisted they get along, the McConnell and Reid feud over Senate proceedings has been well-documented, with their conflict at times spilling over onto the Senate floor .
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