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Transportation Eyes McCain.
BYLINE: Ari Natter
Introducing Mary Peters in the Senate after her nomination to be transportation secretary, Sen. John S. McCain referred to his fellow Arizonian''s former career as a hog butcher.
"She made her living by cutting pork," McCain told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in 2006.
"This background should come in very handy," McCain said. "I urge her to rely heavily on her past pork-cutting experience as she works to carry out her new responsibilities."
Cutting pork-barrel spending has been a career-long crusade for McCain, and he''s frequently put federal transportation funding on the block. That ...
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...Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee completed work on a bill...or meetings. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the committee...million for fiscal 2007. McCain said he was stirred to action...called the change a bad deal. McCain voted against the amendment...
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...work in mid-April. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week OK'd a bill that would require the tobacco...It was require a bipartisan vote," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz., chairman of the Commerce Committee and principal...
- John McCain: A Republican Tech Record; A self-styled maverick, the presidential...
- Magazine article from: eWeek Mark, Roy November 21, 2007 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Connelly, Joel May 18, 1999 700+ words
...in particular.'' McCain is unyielding on limiting...consumer.'' But McCain chairs the influential...Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and so his campaign...raiser last night. McCain promises to be a different...
- The Real McCain.(John McCain)
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect JUDIS, JOHN B. January 17, 2000 700+ words
...There is another side to John McCain. (And no, it's not the...since December 1996, McCain has also been chairman of...Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. The committee is an important...Committee legislative matters, McCain has not always shown the...
- KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: Sen. John McCain To Deliver Landon Lecture At Kansas...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire March 1, 1999 700+ words
...the lecture series. "John McCain is a highly respected senator...and tobacco regulation." McCain is currently serving his...Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and serves on the Armed Services...House from 1982-86. McCain also has served as chairman...
- McCain panel to dive into Big Dig.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Miga, Andrew April 26, 2000 700+ words
...panel next week. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the failed...Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. McCain is chairman of the committee...received personal assurances McCain won't turn the hearings into...
