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11 Jan 2022, 5:01 am by Dianne Feinstein
  I’ve been to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to see the detention operations twice—once in 2002 with then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a congressional delegation and again in 2013 with Senator John McCain and then-White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. [read post]
22 Dec 2021, 10:37 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  That is a particularly galling example of Republicans' commitment to political dirty pool, because even the press's ultimate example of a "conservative with an independent streak," the late Senator John McCain, not only went along with the SALT limitation but with the entire tax giveaway to the rich -- even though the bill had not been presented under "regular order" only a few weeks after McCain had scolded his colleagues for violating… [read post]
20 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Until the Republicans’ 2017 tax bill was enacted into law on a purely party-line vote (with even supposedly independent-minded senators like the late John McCain voting yes on a bill that had not even been put through normal policy channels), taxpayers who itemized their deductions could reduce their federal taxable income by the full amount of the taxes that they paid to their state and city governments.This meant, for example, that a person who was in the federal 35 percent… [read post]
7 Nov 2021, 5:42 am
The 2010 midterm elections demonstrated the coalition’s strength, but it felt the same way toward Mitt Romney as it had for McCain — nice guy but didn’t inspire them.... [read post]
24 Sep 2021, 7:27 am
 Pix Credit: HERE The Chinese central authorities have developed the theme of the  "Black Hand" (黑手) of Foreign (US) Interference in the Internal Affairs of China's Administration of Hong Kong as a central element in its construction of what they hope will become the dispositive counter narrative of the "story" of the Hong Kong protests of 2019 and of the appropriateness and legitimacy of the responses of the central authorities from then to the… [read post]
16 Aug 2021, 9:04 pm by Dan Flynn
John Mccain, R-AZ, opposed FSIS catfish regulations. [read post]
12 Aug 2021, 10:01 am by Michael C. Dorf
That's why Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin were such odd running-mate choices by the first President Bush and Senator/Presidential candidate John McCain (although Quayle had conventional qualifications on paper). [read post]
23 Jul 2021, 12:00 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  John McCain, for example, finally gave up on Trump last weekend, but he then ruled out supporting his former Senate colleague for the presidency.Back in August, after an earlier barrage of Trumpian ugliness, Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins announced that she would not support Trump. [read post]
Thursday, July 22, 2021, at 12:00 p.m.: The McCain Institute will host a conversation between former U.S. [read post]
1 Jun 2021, 11:21 am by John Bellinger
John McCain and Lindsay Graham to draft and shepherd through the Detainee Treatment Act (DTA) of 2005. [read post]
12 May 2021, 7:52 am by Legal Talk Network
Tune in to hear a true life account involving President Nixon, John McCain, Henry Kissinger, the “Hanoi Hilton”, a hijacking, and border crossings. [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 11:02 am by Tia Sewell
Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, featuring David Priess’s interview with New York Times reporter Michael Schwirtz and retired 28-year CIA veteran John Sipher on Russia’s military intelligence GRU Unit 29155. [read post]
However, in 2014, Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain attached a last-minute provision to a must-pass defense bill conveying this site to Resolution Copper upon the completion of the FEIS. [read post]