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Senator John McCain 2007 ***BCS BOWL*** Senator John McCain has a long career of public service. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1958, John McCain began his career as a Naval aviator. In 1982, he was elected to Congress representing what was then the first congressional district of Arizona. In 1986, he was elected to the United States Senate to take the place of Arizona's great Senator Barry Goldwater. Senator McCain is currently the senior senator from Arizona. In 2000, Senator McCain ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.
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John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated by George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. On February 28, 2007, during a guest appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, McCain said he would be seeking the Republican Presidential nomination in the 2008 election, which he formally announced on April 25, 2007.[1] [2]
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In a darkly elegant irony, Republican Senator John McCain, who once promised to support a package of lobbying reform measures in the Senate, changed his mind after he met with lobbyists who opposed the reforms. John McCain complied with the lobbyists' requests, and decided to obstruct the lobbying reforms. What kinds of lobbyists convinced John McCain to flip flop on lobbying reform? Among those who convinced John McCain to turn tail were lobbyists from Focus on the Family, an ultra-right wing fundamentalist religious group led by James Dobson. Dobson has called lobbying reform "a passion by congressional liberals to consolidate power and operate within a cloak of secrecy."
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The son and grandson of prominent Navy admirals, John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1958, McCain began a twenty-two year career as a naval aviator. In 1967, he was shot down over Vietnam and held as a prisoner-of-war in Hanoi for five and a half years (1967-1973), much of it in solitary confinement. He retired from the Navy as a Captain in 1981. McCain's naval honors include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
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New York Senator Hillary Clinton holds a 19-point lead over Illinois Senator Barack Obama, while former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has a 16-point advantage among Republicans over Arizona Senator John McCain. The telephone survey of 1,006 adults was conducted Friday through Sunday. In hypothetical match-ups, registered voters picked Giuliani over Clinton, 50% to 48%, while Clinton beat McCain, 50%-47% — all within the poll’s margin of error of 3 percentage points. Giuliani beat Obama by 9 points (52-43), while an Obama-McCain race resulted in a tie at 48%.
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Senator John McCain introduced a bill in April 1998 that Congress and the president felt they could support. It was tough on tobacco and eliminated most of the contentious immunity provisions of the original settlement. But the industry claimed this bill would bankrupt most of them and walked away. Now, McCain is in charge of the back room negotiations to get the industry back to the Congressional bargaining table.
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