Reid’s Gamble Dislodges Bill

• By Emily Pierce and Erin P. Billings
• Roll Call Staff
• Oct. 2, 2008, Midnight

Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) hasty decision this week to force a Senate vote on a stalled Wall Street rescue package might have single-handedly renewed confidence in his leadership and written a new epilogue to an otherwise unremarkable and highly partisan 110th Congress.