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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid  (D-Nev.) made the following remarks today on the Senate floor.

In the two weeks we were away from Washington, all of us absorbed a numbing tragedy â€" the horrific attack in Arizona.  The nation mourned the lost, thanked the heroes and waited anxiously by a brave Congresswoman’s hospital bedside. We continue to wish the victims a full and speedy recovery, and continue to keep their families in our thoughts.

In the days since the Senate last convened, the nation also resumed a debate over the words, the tone and the metaphors we use here in the Senate, as well as along the campaign trail, on the Internet and over the airwaves.

The national conversation about our national conversation is not new. It happens every year. Candidates promise it every election. But since the shooting in Tucson, calls for more careful language have multiplied and amplified.

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