House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, said today that Harry Reid is “one of the most stand up guys I have ever met in my life.”Speaking on The Ed Show on MSNBC, Clyburn added that Reid’s civil rights record is something “all of us in the African American community can be proud of and can support,” and defended the Nevada Senator against charges of racism and GOP calls for him to resign for making racial comments about Barack Obama in 2008.
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