Senate Deals With McCain’s CitizenshipThe Senate is expected to this week weigh in that Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, is in fact a natural-born American citizen, thus eligible to be president under the Constitution.
A nonbinding resolution trying to clarify the status of Mr. McCain is headed for the floor after the Judiciary Committee approved it last week.
Democratic leaders were mulling whether to simply rush the resolution through as part of a package of bills without opposition or allow senators to express their views over the intersection of the Constitution’s vague natural-born requirement and Mr. McCain’s birth in the Panama Canal Zone while his father, a naval officer, was stationed there.
There were no hearings. There was no fact finding. They even tried to sneak the non-binding resolution into a bill in the dark of night. All they did was vote on a resolution.
Yes, there IS. The very quote I displayed is in the article that I linked to following quote.
All you had to do was scroll.
"congressional hearings were held to determine whether Sen. John McCain was constitutionally eligible to be president as a “natural born citizen,” no controlling legal authority ever sought to verify Obama’s claim to a Hawaiian birth."