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Sen. John McCain said Thursday he is holding up President Trump's pick for Army secretary and other nominees partly to get answers about recent soldier deaths in Niger. McCain, R-Ariz., added the Oct. 4 ambush by ISIS-aligned fighters in West Africa that killed four soldiers to the list of military briefings his Armed Services Committee wants from the Trump administration in exchange for moving Defense Department nominees. The DoD has launched an investigation of the incident in Africa and plans to release the findings to Congress, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump's national security adviser, said Thursday. The Armed Services chairman...

When we remind people that elections have consequences, we’re usually talking about the outrage that comes from appointments to the executive and judicial branches. They have other consequences on policy and legislative priorities, as John McCain “forcefully” reminded Hispanic immigration activists at a meeting last month. National Journal reports on the fallout today.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday bemoaned what he called politics as usual and criticized President Obama's early Cabinet choices as typical Washington appointees. "I'm not happy, and most of us aren't at the lack of true bipartisanship in approaching this legislation," McCain said of the stimulus package during an interview on CNN's "State of the Union." The eight-pound, thousand-page measure is "the old business as usual," McCain said, criticizing the president for going back on his pledges of transparency.

Sen. John McCain said flatly today on CNN's State of the Union with John King, that President Obama's Stimulus Bill was "a bad beginning" for him, and that the bill is "not bipartisan." It is clear that Obama deliberately made the high-profile overture of visiting with Republicans in Congress prior to the bill being written. He did so as a purely political stunt. The Democrats then wrote the bill as they wanted, will all the giveaways to their constituent interest groups. Republicans were not a part of serious negotiations on the legislation. Obama's team are using his visits with Republicans...