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Harry Reid's Prostitution Lecture Bombs

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The most powerful man in the United States Senate, addressing the legislature of his home state at a time of fiscal chaos and potential government shutdown, had something he wanted to talk about Tuesday: hookers.

But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s impassioned lecture landed in Carson City with a thud.