Word: mccain
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...Senate is expected to vote soon on an amendment offered by Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and John McCain of Arizona, its ranking Republican, to eliminate $1.75 billion that the committee added, over their objections, for seven more F-22s (the price includes only the hardware, not the R&D, to design the planes). Those calling for an end to the plane's production note that the F-22 was designed to fight Soviet warplanes - aircraft never built by a country that no longer exists. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...pledged to use his first veto if next year's defense authorization bill contains funding for extra F-22s, knowing that losing this dogfight would doom Gates' effort to retool the Pentagon. "We do not need these planes," Obama said on July 13 in letters to Levin and McCain. (See pictures of Obama's family tree...
...your story on Barack Obama's plan for health-care reform [June 29]: I am embarrassed that my Senators, Jon Kyl and John McCain, are fighting so hard to maintain the status quo on health care and health insurance. Their employer, the U.S. government, is the single payer in their system, but if the rest of us were to get exactly the same coverage, it would be--gasp!--Socialized Medicine. I have to assume these gentlemen have no idea what it would cost to replace their coverage, given their ages and pre-existing conditions, in the free market they admire...
...change in tone, style and message will not be known for some time. What's more, it can be difficult to measure results in international affairs - to say conclusively, for instance, that Russia's cooperation on nuclear-weapon reductions could not have happened under the Administration of President John McCain or that the willingness of China to increase pressure on North Korea is anything more than a response to the rogue nation's increasing belligerence. (See pictures of Obama's meeting with the Pope...
...McCain, Sen. John continued refusal of to get down on all fours and beg Americans to forgive him for inflicting Sarah Palin on them...