Senate Majority Leader Reid pushes online piracy bill despite White House concerns

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) vowed to move forward with a controversial online piracy bill on Jan 15, despite the White House expressing concern with the measure.

"We need to work on this and we're going to -- I will hope we can have a manager's amendment when we get back here in a week or 10 days and move forward on this," Sen Reid told David Gregory on NBC's Meet the Press. "It's important that we try to do this on a fair basis, and I'm going to do everything I can to get that done," Sen Reid said. He acknowledged that the bill has come under intense fire from consumer groups and Web companies including Google and Facebook, who say it would stifle innovation and censor free speech. "I think they're right, I think it could create some problems," Reid admitted, but he expressed confidence that an amended version of the bill could be a "winner for everyone, not just for the content people."