Candidate Positions

Original source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3738/is_200407/ai_n9458651

Globalization enthusiasts, including McCain and Senate Armed Services Chairman John Warner, R-Va., invert that argument, asserting that if the Navy and other service branches can’t peruse foreign markets for subsystems and componentry, they will miss out on low-cost, high-quality alternatives to American manufacturing and jeopardize critical military capabilities and readiness. They could also damage key alliances that will form the backbone of future coalitions in the war on terrorism and other potential conflicts.

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Original source:http://globalwarming-factorfiction.com/2007/04/29/meet-captain-climate/

John McCain says he’ll battle global warming as fiercely as he fought money in politics. But will his fellow Republicans join the crusade?
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About a week later, at another rally, Captain Climate was again in the audience. And this time, McCain announced from the stage, “I’m concerned about climate change. I’m going to do something about it.”

Original source: http://mccain.senate.gov/press_office/view_article.cfm?id=653

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) plans to offer an amendment to the Education bill on Wednesday to provide educational opportunities for economically disadvantaged children in the District of Columbia through a four-year school choice voucher program paid for by eliminating pork barrel projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget.

“We need to demonstrate through a successful voucher program in the District of Columbia, where per-pupil-spending is among the nation’s highest yet students score well-below average, that we can implement a successful voucher program nationwide,” McCain said. “This program would expand educational opportunities for low-income children in the District by providing parents and students the freedom to choose the best school for their unique academic needs, while encouraging schools to be creative and responsive to the needs of all students.”

The “Educational Choices for Disadvantaged Children” amendment will authorize $25 million for fiscal years 2002 through 2005, with $24 million going to the scholarships and the remainder being used for expenses including a Comptroller General study.

Under this amendment, the District of Columbia Board of Education would determine which schools would be eligible for scholarships, targeted at the schools with the lowest academic performance in the District. They would then establish a lottery for determining which qualifying students in the identified schools would receive the scholarship.

Each eligible child would receive $2,000 per year for four years, to be used for public, private or religious school tuition and transportation costs, or supplementary educational assistance while attending either a private, public or religious school. Finally, at the end of the demonstration, the Comptroller General would prepare a comprehensive report on the results of the program.

Original source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/john-mccains-gun-proble_b_27717.html

McCain’s “gun problem” stems from two issues: his successful campaign to enact the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform package and his failed Congressional efforts to regulate all sales at gun shows (conducted in a high-profile partnership with Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman and backed by a group called Americans for Gun Safety, which, by its very name, is enough to earn the instant enmity of many activist gun owners).
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When McCain was trumpeting both of these issues, the National Rifle Association and other pro-gun organizations reacted as jilted, and increasingly, bitter lovers.
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It features a section titled “GOA’s Take on John McCain” and asks the question, “Conservative or Gun Grabber?” Underneath a picture of McCain with the international ban sign over his face, the group states: “Arizona Senator John McCain is almost certainly running for President again. He has been courting various conservative leaders in his quest to secure the Republican nomination. McCain wants voters to believe that he is a conservative… but his record would certainly suggest otherwise. Take, for instance, his record on gun rights and political speech affecting Second Amendment activists. Abysmal, wretched, and pathetic are words that come to mind.” GOA’s legislative rating for McCain in 2006: F.

Original source: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/02/mccain200702

McCain had been asked how debate over the immigration bill was playing politically. “In the short term, it probably galvanizes our base,” he said. “In the long term, if you alienate the Hispanics, you’ll pay a heavy price.” Then he added, unable to help himself, “By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it.”

“I’m willing to negotiate anything,” McCain tells the breakfast crowd in Sioux City, explaining that there is no way the millions of illegal aliens now here can be sent back to their countries of origin. But he acknowledges that anything seen as amnesty for illegals is “totally unacceptable, particularly to our Republican base.” Later, McCain tells me that Congressman King “really knows this issue,” but he sounds as if he is trying to persuade himself as much as me.

Original source: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-hopefuls-getting-more-time-to-weigh-stem-cell-vote-2005-10-25.html

Like Frist, John McCain, the Republican senator with the highest national profile, has reversed his position on the issue and now supports an expansion of the research.

“It’s a very complex scientific issue,” McCain (Ariz.) told NBC’s Tim Russert earlier this year. “But for us to throw away opportunities to cure diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and many others I think would be a mistake.”

Original source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17222147/

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, looking to improve his standing with the party’s conservative voters, said Sunday the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.

“I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned,” the Arizona senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting states.