Washington Post
Paul Kane
"McCain Skips Vote on Spending Bill"One of the Senate's longest-running streaks hit 115 today.
After returning to Washington early this morning, ostensibly to help with congressional negotiations on bailout legislation, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) missed a pair of votes on a massive spending bill that keeps the federal government running for the next five months.
When the roll call on final passage occurred,
McCain was at his campaign headquarters in Crystal City, Va., five miles from the Capitol. Aides said he is engaging in phone calls with Republican leaders involved in the talks to approve legislation creating a massive $700 billion bailout of the financial services industry, talks that McCain threw himself into at a White House summit Thursday, then retreated from Friday for his presidential campaign debate with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
"I just talked to him. I don't know where he's at," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), after casting one of just 12 'nay' votes against the bill.
In missing today's votes,
McCain passed up the opportunity to critique a bill that -- as he said in last night's debate -- has more than 2,200 special spending provisions known as earmarks, most of which have never seen the light of day until the legislation was released late this week.
McCain, who has not voted since April 8, has now missed five-and-a-half months of roll calls in the Senate, during which 115 votes have been held.
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Gee, he really cares about those earmarks, doesn't he? :rofl:
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