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Has John McCain Gone Cool on Global Warming Legislation?

New York Times - Thu Jul 16, 9:25 am ET

Sen. John McCain once reveled in his stance as a maverick of the Republican Party on climate change. Now, as the Senate prepa...

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America must reclaim moral standing, McCain says
CNN - Thu Jul 16, 3:13 pm ET
Sen. John McCain said Thursday the United States must recover from the "moral failures" of human rights abuses and called for Americans to stand on the "right side" of history as a leader of the free world.
Missing McCain
The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 11:25 am ET
South Carolina's Lindsey Graham is known as John McCain's staunch defender -- both by Washington insiders and political watchers outside the Beltway. But McCain hasn't been anywhere around Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing, and Graham has played a very different role during them.
Rep. Murtha believes F22 deal can be reached
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 4:21 pm ET
Congress and the Obama administration can still strike a deal on funding new F-22s made by Lockheed Martin Corp despite a presidential threat to veto military spending legislation if the fighter jet program is not terminated, a senior lawmaker said on Thursday.
Feeding John McCain
NBC Philadelphia - Wed Jul 15, 8:30 pm ET
In less than a year, John McCain has gone from not using a computer to becoming a king of social media with 1,000,000 followers on Twitter. Sponsored Topics: Twitter - Social media - John McCain - Facebook - Politics
Plain language, please!
The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 1:07 pm ET
For two straight days, the non-lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked Sotomayor to speak in English, not legalese.
Not on the fringe
The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 12:21 pm ET
Two of the Senate Judiciary Committee's conservatives say Sotomayor's judicial record shows she's in the mainstream.
Praise from both sides of the aisle
The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 11:52 am ET
Three days of testimony are paying off: Sonia Sotomayor is drawing praise today from GOP skeptics as well as Democratic supporters.
Of hitting the softball
The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 11:40 am ET
Sometimes, it's the softball questions that seem to throw Sonia Sotomayor off -- if even briefly. At those times, she pauses and carefully chooses words that would not embrace the sympathies tossed her way by Democrats, who might believe she will be more sympathetic to their views.
So about that New Haven case ...
The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 11:37 am ET
Democrats and Republicans have been arguing over a Supreme Court footnote in the New Haven, Conn., firefighters reverse discrimination case in which the Supreme Court overturned an appellate court decision in which Sotomayor participated.
From the blogs: Franken, Franken, Franken
The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 11:33 am ET
For bloggers, at least, one of the hearing's highlights was hearing Sen. Al Franken, the funny man-turned-politician who refuses to be funny. Some enjoyed the moment that Franken finally cracked a joke when talking to Sotomayor about Perry Mason.
What's that about?
The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 11:21 am ET
"I never thought I'd live to hear myself say this -- look at the Ninth Circuit."
How 'True Blood' Lost Me
Newsweek - 43 minutes ago
The HBO vampire series leaves me cold, and it's not because of all the dead bodies
Senate Vote On Hate Crimes Thursday
The Advocate via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 6:33 am ET
The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on whether to attach to the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act to the Department of Defense authorization bill.
Panel Named to Examine Causes of Economic Crisis
New York Times - Thu Jul 16, 5:52 am ET
Congressional Democrats announced on Wednesday that Phil Angelides, a former California treasurer, would lead a commission to examine the causes of the financial crisis, The New York Times’s Stephen Labaton reported.
McCain: Joe the Plumber is a 'Dumbass'
FOX Eugene - Thu Jul 16, 5:55 pm ET
John McCain's daughter, Meghan, has proved that she isn't afraid to speak her mind and even attack the views of certain Republicans. Now she has a new victim -- Joe the Plumber.