John McCain
John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama.
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"The Taliban went after and murdered" people identified in the Chelsea Manning leaks.
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Says Ann Kirkpatrick walked out "on constituents when questioned" on the Affordable Care Act.
"30,000 Arizonans may have no choice" on Affordable Care Act coverage.
The Every Student Succeeds Act "did away basically with Common Core."
North Korea’s missiles are "not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon."
"Today Russia holds many of our most precious national security satellites at risk before they ever get off the ground."
If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon."
"About 30 percent" of those released from Guantanamo "have re-entered the fight."
"We were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States."
Says President Obama "has never made a statement ... that he wanted a residual force left (in Iraq)."