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  • McCain exhorts Obama to make Afghan decision now

    WRIC 8 News | 10/28/2009 05:10 pm

    Sen. John McCain is exhorting President Barack Obama to make a decision quickly on sending additional troops to Afghanistan, saying U.S allies are nervous and military commanders are frustrated.

  • McDonnell, Deeds, trade charges on 'cap and trade'

    Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 10/16/2009 10:10 pm

    Virginia’s candidates for governor continued to pound each other today with new negative TV ads over proposed climate-change legislation. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce also entered the fray with an ...

  • McCain presses Obama to pardon black boxer

    WRIC 8 News | 10/16/2009 08:06 pm

    Sen. John McCain on Friday pressed President Barack Obama to give a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight boxing champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago because ...

  • Senate defeats bid to force general's testimony

    WRIC 8 News | 10/01/2009 09:27 pm

    The Senate has rejected an effort by Sen. John McCain to force the field commander in Afghanistan to testify before Congress by mid-November.

  • Senate rebuffs Obama, McCain in backing cargo jets

    WRIC 8 News | 10/01/2009 08:15 pm

    In a rebuff to both President Barack Obama and his former presidential opponent, Republican Sen. John McCain, the Senate on Wednesday rejected an effort to kill $2.5 billion for 10 ...

  • McCain: Time is running short for Afghan decision

    WRIC 8 News | 09/30/2009 08:35 pm

    Sen. John McCain said Wednesday that President Barack Obama cannot give up the fight in Afghanistan, saying the region would be destabilized if the United States and its NATO allies ...

  • McCain: Time is running short for Afghan decision

    WRIC 8 News | 09/30/2009 08:19 pm

    Sen. John McCain said Wednesday that President Barack Obama cannot give up the fight in Afghanistan, saying the region would be destabilized if the United States and its NATO allies ...

  • McCain: Health debate hurt by Kennedy's absence

    WRIC 8 News | 08/23/2009 08:05 pm

    Republican Sen. John McCain says the absence ofailing Ted Kennedy in pushing health-care reform has made a "huge, huge difference" in whether legislation gets passed.

  • McCain: Obama must drop health care public option

    WRIC 8 News | 08/23/2009 04:25 pm

    Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama will have to drop proposals for a government-run health insurance option if he hopes to reach congressional agreement on health-care reform.

  • McCain to oppose Sotomayor for Supreme Court

    WRIC 8 News | 08/04/2009 03:41 am

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. John McCain says he'll oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor when the Senate votes on her confirmation this week.

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