McCain voted with 53 other Republicans and four Democrats to proceed to the measure of disapproval. Hire More Heroes Act of follow up votes On September 15, , the Senate voted for a second time to filibuster the measure to disapprove of the Iran nuclear deal by a vote of McCain voted with 51 Republicans and four Democrats to proceed to the measure of disapproval.
The amendment proposed prohibiting "the President from waiving, suspending, reducing, providing relief from, or otherwise limiting the application of sanctions pursuant to an agreement related to the nuclear program of Iran.
It became law on June 2, All 44 Democratic senators voted to confirm Lynch. McCain voted with 42 other Republican senators against Lynch's confirmation. McCain voted with 42 Republicans , 30 Democrats and one independent in favor of the bill.
The bill proposed withholding federal funding from "sanctuary jurisdictions" that violate the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of and other federal immigration laws. In addition, the bill proposed increasing "penalties for individuals who illegally reenter the United States after being removed" and providing "liability protection for State and local law enforcement who cooperate with Federal law enforcement.
The second session of the th Congress enacted into law out of the introduced bills 7 percent. Comparatively, the th Congress had 4. Of the nine Democratic members and eight Republican members that made up the committee, seven Democrats and three Republicans voted in favor, while five Republicans and two Democrats opposed the authorization. McCain was one of the three Republicans who approved the authorization. The nomination was confirmed by the Senate on March 7, , with a vote of 63 - Most Democrats supported the nomination, while Republicans were somewhat divided with roughly one-third supporting the nomination.
The nearly 1,page bill reformed and continued various programs of the Department of Agriculture through On January 16, , the Democratic -controlled Senate approved H. McCain voted with 25 other Republican members against the bill. During the shutdown in October , the Senate rejected, down party lines, every House-originated bill that stripped the budget of funding for the Affordable Care Act.
A deal was reached late on October 16, , just hours before the debt ceiling deadline. The bill to reopen the government, H. Federal employees also received retroactive pay for the shutdown period. The only concession made by Senate Democrats was to require income verification for Obamacare subsidies.
McCain voted with the Democratic Party for the bill. McCain voted for H. The bill passed the Senate on January 31, , with a vote of 64 - The purpose of the bill was to temporarily suspend the debt ceiling and withhold the pay of members of Congress until a budget could be passed.
The vote largely followed party lines with Democrats overwhelmingly supporting it and many Republicans in opposition to the bill. The amendment was rejected by the Senate on June 18, , with a vote of 39 - The purpose of the amendment was to require the completion of miles of fence described in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of before registered provisional immigrant status may be granted. It would also require miles of fence be completed before the status of registered provisional immigrants may be changed to permanent resident status.
The vote followed party lines. McCain voted for S. The bill was passed by the Senate on February 12, , with a vote of 78 - The purpose of the bill was to combat violence against women, from domestic violence to international trafficking in persons.
All 22 dissenting votes were cast by Republicans. On April 17, , the U. Senate took a vote on and defeated a measure that would have expanded federal background checks for firearms purchases. McCain voted for the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in and while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels. The bill was passed in the Senate by an 89 - 8 vote on January 1, He alone bears the burden of his conduct and alone should suffer the consequences.
I have wanted to support the candidate our party nominated. He was not my choice, but as a past nominee, I thought it was important I respect the fact that Donald Trump won a majority of the delegates by the rules our party set.
I thought I owed his supporters that deference. Cindy, with her strong background in human rights and respect for women fully agrees with me on this. Cindy and I will not vote for Donald Trump. I have never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate and we will not vote for Hillary Clinton. We will write in the name of some good conservative Republican who is qualified to be President. McCain was one of the 47 who signed the letter. No Democrats signed it. The letter caused backlash from both the Obama administration and members of Congress.
McCain said the following about use-of-force in Syria after meeting with President Obama : "A rejection of this resolution would be catastrophic, not just for him but for the institution of the presidency and the credibility of the United States.
Certainly, that was the case in the Armed Services Committee. And Gen. We cannot imagine a worse signal to send to Iran as it continues its push for a nuclear weapon. That is morally and strategically indefensible. He said, "It's not a matter of trust. It's a matter of whether it will be enforced.
Paul started the filibuster in order to highlight his concerns about the administration's drone policies. In particular, Paul said he was concerned about whether a drone could be used to kill an American citizen within the United States border, without any due process involved. Paul and other civil liberties activists have been critical that President Obama did not offer a clear response to the question. A total of 14 senators joined Paul in the filibuster -- 13 Republicans and one Democrat.
McCain spoke out against Rand Paul , following the filibuster. Called to the Senate to vote on the "skinny repeal" bill, he was seen conferring with several prominent senators, as well as Vice President Mike Pence , before delivering his decisive "no" vote to torpedo the bill's chances of passing. Two months later, when Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy spearheaded another attempt at repealing Obamacare, McCain again announced that he would not back the legislation. In late November, as Senate Republicans sought to push through a new tax bill, McCain announced that this time, his party had his support.
Even while away from the Senate to deal with health issues in early , McCain demonstrated that he would continue to speak out when necessary. This time, the issue was a controversial House memo that purportedly demonstrated how the FBI and DOJ abused authority when obtaining a wiretap warrant for a Trump campaign associate. Although many Republicans supported the public release of the memo as evidence of bias against Trump, McCain was among those who expressed concern that it would prove damaging to the intelligence community.
McCain also sought to remain involved in the ongoing debate over immigration reform by teaming with Delaware Senator Chris Coons to propose legislation. In April, he said that the president's comments about withdrawing troops from Syria had emboldened Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad , his words seeming prophetic when al-Assad was accused of launching deadly chemical attacks against his people later in the month.
In August , President Trump fired another round in his longstanding feud with the senator when he signed the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act and thanked several people, but never once mentioned the man whose name graced the bill. In late April , McCain released an excerpt of his upcoming memoir, The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations, in which he delves into the discovery and fallout of his cancer diagnosis, leaving him in a position where he is now free to "vote my conscience without worry.
Befitting his status as an elder statesman, McCain warns his Senate colleagues against "secluding ourselves into ideological ghettos" with increasing reliance on personalized news sources and like-minded communities. The Restless Wave excerpt also had McCain musing on his own mortality, with a nod to For Whom the Bell Tolls : "The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it," he writes.
Not one. I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times. He adopted her two young children from a previous marriage, Doug and Andy Shepp, and in they had a daughter together, Sidney.
The couple divorced in April McCain met Cindy Lou Hensley, a teacher from Phoenix and daughter of a prosperous Arizona beer distributor, while she was on vacation in with her parents in Hawaii. McCain was still married at the time, but separated from his first wife. John and Cindy were married in Phoenix on May 17, In August , McCain was diagnosed with skin cancer he had lesions on his face and arm, which doctors determined were unrelated to a similar lesion he had removed in He subsequently underwent surgery, during which all the cancerous tissue was successfully removed.
McCain also underwent routine prostate surgery for an enlarged prostate in August The operation led to the discovery of an aggressive, malignant brain tumor known as glioblastoma, a condition that had killed McCain's former Senate colleague Edward Kennedy. After undergoing his first round of chemotherapy and radiation in mid-August, McCain announced that he would continue working at the Senate between treatment stints. In December , it was revealed that the senator had been hospitalized for a viral infection and was heading home to Arizona for treatment.
Although he expressed hope that he would return to the Senate early the following year, McCain's recuperation continued well into the spring of On April 16, McCain's office released a statement that said the senator was in stable condition after undergoing surgery to treat an intestinal infection, and offered a progress report of his activity since leaving Washington.
Senator McCain and his family are grateful to the senator's excellent care team, and appreciate the support and prayers they continue to receive from people all over the country. On August 24, , a statement from the McCain family announced the senator would forego further treatment for his cancer.
God bless and thank you all. On August 25, just one day after the announcement, McCain died at his home in Sedona, Arizona, at age His daughter, Meghan, released a statement that said: "I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning.
All that I am is thanks to him. The couple divorced in April McCain met Cindy Lou Hensley, a teacher from Phoenix and daughter of a prosperous Arizona beer distributor, while she was on vacation in with her parents in Hawaii.
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