HARRY REID (MAJORITY LEADER VADA Wnited States Senate WASHINGTON, 0¢ 20510-7012 November 15, 2010 Dear Colleagues, Some of you have spent the last few weeks on the campaign trail. Others toured your states, meeting with your constituents. However you spent October, I trust you are returning to the Senate and looking forward to the 112" Congress with the same renewed motivation I’m bringing with me from Nevada. 1 know you are also bringing with you fresh reminders of how much work we have left to help our economy regain its strength. Thave given serious thought to how our caucus can best address this and the many other challenges our country will face in the next two years and beyond, If T am fortunate enough to serve again as your Leader, one of my first priorities will be fo strengthen our strategic operations, ‘To do so, we must better integrate our legislative- and message-crafting functions into a central, coordinated nucleus managing policy, press and politics, That starts with uniting the Democratic Policy Committee and the Senate Democratic Communications Center into a joint operation, T have asked Senator Schumer, whose communications abilities and taetical skills we all greaily respect, to lead this effort as Chairman of the new office. Ihave asked Senator Stabenow, whose work leading the Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee has been exemplary, to support Senator Schumer as Vice Chairman, T have also asked Senator Begich to lead the Steering and Outreach Committee, Tlook forward to discussing these plans with you during tomorrow’s caucus meeting. Whatever changes we make, our charge remains the same: coordinating our caucus as effectively as possible so we can accomplish our number-one responsibility: getting people back to work, Sincerely, Ms HARRY RHID Majority Léader