Harry Reid: GOP Practically ‘Falling All over Themselves’ to Please the Kochs

Today Republican Senator Jerry Moran took to the Senate floor to read the full op-ed submitted to The Wall Street Journal by Charles Koch, and Harry Reid used this to slam the GOP for “falling over themselves” at every turn to do the bidding of the Koch brothers.

Moran railed against the liberal attacks on the Kochs (Koch Industries is based in Kansas, the state Moran represents), and read the entire op-ed into the congressional record. Later in the day, Reid spoke at a Democratic press conference on increasing the minimum wage, and during the event he took some shots at the Kochs and their Republican allies.

Reid considered it a badge of honor that he’s “getting under their skin,” and went after not just the “shadow billionaires” but the politicians who support them.

“By every indication, my Republican colleagues are falling all over themselves to help advance their self-described radical philosophy. Already, we’ve had one senator run to the Senate floor and he read word-for-word that op-ed piece onto the floor. It’s truly scary that the Republican Koch agenda and the Ryan Koch budget is just what they want to make millionaires and billionaires even richer.”

You can watch part of Moran’s speech, followed by Reid’s remarks, below, via CSPAN2:

[h/t HuffPost]
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