Sen. Harry Reid sported some new, hip eyewear on Capitol Hill weeks after an exercising injury that might ultimately cost him vision in his right eye.
Reid started out the day on the Senate floor with a giant bandage across his right eye, a staple since he had an accident while exercising earlier this year.
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PHOTO: Democratic leader Harry Reid wears a bandage on the Senate floor on February 24, 2015.
But at a news conference urging Republicans to pass funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the bandage was gone and instead Reid donned a pair of dark sunglasses.
“He likes them, and he's not wearing the bandage,” Kristen Orthman, a spokeswoman for Reid, told ABC News. Orthman noted Reid normally wears prescription glasses and that the sunglasses also have a prescription, allowing him to see properly out of his left eye.
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PHOTO: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid accuses Republican Senate leaders of manufacturing the possible shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol, Feb. 24, 2015 in Washington, DC.
The sunglasses aren’t new. He is seen wearing them in his profile in a picture on the Las Vegas strip.
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PHOTO: This screen grab from Harry Reid's official Twitter page was made on Feb. 24, 2015.
Some people on Twitter are comparing the eyewear to the sunglasses used in the “Deal With It” Internet meme.
Over the past two months, Reid has undergone two eye surgeries to help restore vision in his right eye, the most recent one taking place two weeks ago.
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