Rep. Cummings rages against wasteful IRS conference spending Reid: "Calm down" about Verizon releasing user data to government Reacting to the news that Verizon turns over user data to the National Security Agency, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., urged everyone to "calm down," saying, "This isn't anything that is brand new - it's been going on for some seven years, and we have tried to often to try to make it better and work, and we will continue to do that."