Harry Reid Again Casts Wrong Vote on Health Bill

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: Congress

(Credit: CBS)

For the second time, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cast the wrong vote on a piece of health care legislation.

Reid was voting this afternoon on the House reconciliation bill making tweaks to the health care legislation already signed into law.

Reid voted no on the bill before realizing his mistake and switching his vote to yes with a smile. The chamber broke into laughter when Reid cast the vote, CBS News Capitol Hill producer John Nolen reports, perhaps because the majority leader made the same mistake during passage of the Senate health care bill on Christmas Eve.

After the Christmas Eve vote, Reid quipped, "I spent a very restless night last night trying to figure out how I could show some bipartisanship. And I think I was able to accomplish that for a few minutes today."

Reid's office said his "no" vote this afternoon was a mistake, not a joke.

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Brian Montopoli is the senior political reporter at CBSNews.com.
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by FauxNews March 26, 2010 9:38 AM EDT: Morons leading morons; Reply to this comment


by pasmalltown March 26, 2010 5:35 AM EDT: Here's the other side of the coin, Harry just jumped the gun, realizing he couldn't wait til April 1st he decided to point out who the real fools are in the Senate are.............; Reply to this comment

by wfw3536 March 25, 2010 9:18 PM EDT

This is the guy who was happy when we lost 30,000 jobs when about 20% of the American people who are hurting as being either un or underemployed. He isn't fit to represent NV and needs to be voted out in November.

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by pasmalltown March 26, 2010 7:54 AM EDT: And now Repub Coburn wants to hold up unemployed benefits til after he's finished his Easter Sunday turkey or ham or whatever these elitist, don't care about the middleclass worker, Viagra hating idiots that claim they care about the economy and unemployed Americans, eat for Easter...


by RobAla March 25, 2010 7:45 PM EDT: Yes, this is the man who crammed through a disastrous health care bill.; Reply to this comment

by swanman823 March 25, 2010 7:10 PM EDT

This guy is at least three beers short of a six pack. He obviously is mentally impared, I remember he had some "mini strokes" a while back. There is no fool like an old fool. Hang it up Harry.

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by pasmalltown March 26, 2010 7:58 AM EDT: And might you be the one that took the three beers from Harry's six pack? There's no fool like a drunk fool........ or it is you think of yourself as perfect in every way?


by gthog March 25, 2010 7:09 PM EDT: Was he drunk or is he senile?; Reply to this comment


by Dutra1 March 25, 2010 6:58 PM EDT: It is time that the senile Senators (Reid and Byrd) pass the baton to younger players.; Reply to this comment


by random_radar March 25, 2010 6:55 PM EDT: Now he can honestly tell his constituents that he actually voted against the health care bill.; Reply to this comment