Word: mccains
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Fortunately, Republicans have a few aggressive pork busters in their ranks, most notably Arizona Senator John McCain. While most lawmakers pay little attention to the thousands of line items in appropriations bills, he has assigned a sharp-eyed 29-year-old staff member, Mark Buse, to pore over them and monitor the Senate floor for as long as 13 hours at a stretch. Buse has earned the nickname "the ferret" -- as well as the enmity of Senators annoyed by his zealous impertinence. But Peter Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, says, "Mark's efforts have been absolutely critical...
Alerted by Buse, McCain was soon on the floor, threatening to delay the Senate's July 4 recess by demanding a separate vote on both projects. Eventually, Yellow Creek was removed from the bill, and the Clear Lake provision was modified to McCain's satisfaction. "There is still a belief that you can't get re-elected unless you bring home the bacon,'' says McCain. "I don't think that's the way voters feel anymore ... They don't understand why, when we're asking people to make a sacrifice on Medicare, we feel we can afford these other kinds...
...other hand, Navy pilot John McCain, shot down over Hanoi in 1967, spent 5-1/2 years in enemy captivity, including 31 months in solitary. Brutally beaten and otherwise tortured, repeatedly on the edge of death, McCain survived by drawing on some fierce inner resource. When the North Vietnamese--knowing that McCain's father was the famous Admiral Jack McCain, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific forces--tried to release the young flyer early on as a propaganda gesture, McCain, crippled and skeletal, spat in their faces and let loose such an outpouring of naval obscenity that the startled...
...Dornan (R-Calif.), who may soon withdraw from the race, on Sunday called Clinton a "triple draft dodger" and told NBC's "Meet the Press" that establishing diplomatic ties was "going to deny him a second term for sure." But Clinton will have formidable support Tuesday: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), a former Navy pilot who spent six years in aHanoi prisoner-of-war camp.Said McCain Sunday: "I would like for Sen. Dole to let us end this...
What is a hero?Captain Scott O'Gradyhad the grace to blush when America welcomed him home from six days of scavenging in Bosnia with the kind of publicity once lavished upon Douglas MacArthur. Navy pilot John McCain, on the other hand, survived nearly six brutal years in Viet Cong captivity and once spat in the faces of startled Vietnamese dignitaries. McCain, now the senior Senator from Arizona, is one of five notable or notorious Annapolis graduates and Vietnam veterans whose interbraided destinies make up Robert Timberg's "The Nightingale's Song" (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a story thatTIME...