Harry Reid's fiscal legacy

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Friday morning he would not seek re-election in 2016, thus ending a long congressional career of liberal fiscal positions.

Reid voted to raise the debt ceiling 32 times while serving in Congress for the past 32 years. Ten of those votes came during Reid’s eight year tenure as Senate Majority Leader. In 1983, when he first voted for a debt ceiling increase, the debt limit was $400 billion, or $1.1 trillion in today’s dollars. Today, the debt limit has exploded to 16 times higher to $18.1 trillion.