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Republicans resist plan to rename Senate building for McCain
AP ^ | 8/29 | Matthew Daly

Posted on 08/29/2018 10:12:12 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

A proposal to rename the Senate's oldest office building for John McCain ran into resistance Tuesday from Republican senators reluctant to take away an honor already bestowed on an earlier Senate titan — and a leader of Southern senators during a tumultuous era in the nation's history.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, looking to defuse a budding controversy, said he will form a bipartisan panel to solicit ideas on the best way to honor the late Arizona senator.

McCain "meant so much to so many of us — inside this chamber and out," McConnell said Tuesday in a speech on the Senate floor. "The Senate is eager to work on concrete ways to continue this momentum and provide a lasting tribute to this American hero long after this week's observances are complete."

Besides the proposal to rename the Russell Senate Office building, lawmakers may consider naming a room used by the Senate Armed Services Committee after McCain, who was the panel's chairman, McConnell said. Another idea is to add McCain's portrait to a reception room right off the Senate floor, joining such giants as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and Robert Taft. Only seven senators are honored with portraits there.

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A portrait really? That's rich.... Who cares? Do we really need a "bi-partisan panel" for this? My God. How about we just do nothing and call it the "Senate Building". No one is greater than the whole.
1 posted on 08/29/2018 10:12:12 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I agree. Rename the building the Pig Trough. That would be more appropriate.


2 posted on 08/29/2018 10:13:58 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Name some dirt road in the Arizona desert after McCain...


3 posted on 08/29/2018 10:15:43 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

McCain betrayed the citizens of this country multiple times.
He deserves no honors.
He had no honor.


4 posted on 08/29/2018 10:16:39 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Agree!


5 posted on 08/29/2018 10:17:19 AM PDT by caww
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

He’s got a ship already. This is ridiculous.


6 posted on 08/29/2018 10:17:32 AM PDT by jean michael
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Wasting time as usual.

Rename the Building and move on. Better it’s named after a Republican than a Democrat anyway.

Now, how about renaming every Building in West Virginia named after former KKK Member and Democrat Senator Robert Byrd?


7 posted on 08/29/2018 10:18:51 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Nothing at all should be named after anyone who has not been dead for at least 50 years, preferably, 100.


8 posted on 08/29/2018 10:19:07 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

This is simply an attempt by Schumer to create a diversion. To get the Senate off on a tangent that relieves them from their actual real responsibilities. This is no more important than “naming post offices!” Oh look over there at that “bright thing!”


9 posted on 08/29/2018 10:20:08 AM PDT by vette6387
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“Now, how about renaming every Building in West Virginia named after former KKK Member and Democrat Senator Robert Byrd?”

There isn’t enough time to do that! It would take years!


10 posted on 08/29/2018 10:20:53 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Once McCain is interned, the argument to rename the Russell for McCain will be more about Russell and his strident advocacy for Segregation, than it will be about McCain.


11 posted on 08/29/2018 10:21:29 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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If NONAMEs name is placed on anything it should be the new Guantanamo Bay


12 posted on 08/29/2018 10:21:47 AM PDT by klimeckg
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To: TangledUpInBlue

This is how the earn their paycheck. Pathetic.


13 posted on 08/29/2018 10:22:03 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: jean michael

“He’s got a ship already. This is ridiculous.”

That ship was named for his grandfather or father, not him! They Were both John S. McCains. “Our John McCain is “the third!” John Sidney McCain III!


14 posted on 08/29/2018 10:22:46 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

McCain.....Who’s he? Who cares? So long, it’s been good to know “Turn Coat, Trump Hater” John McCain”!!!


15 posted on 08/29/2018 10:23:52 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Name a bathroom stall in the Senate building.
But throw some dirt on him and be done with it.
Enough of this McCain worship.


16 posted on 08/29/2018 10:24:00 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right)
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To: Chickensoup

“Nothing at all should be named after anyone who has not been dead for at least 50 years, preferably, 100.”

Out here in California, freeways are named for dead cops before their bodies are in the ground! It is a ghoulish practice.


17 posted on 08/29/2018 10:25:16 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Blue House Sue

Interred. Unless he’s somehow starting another job :)


18 posted on 08/29/2018 10:25:37 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

If they rename the building for McCain, they’ll need to hire a full time crew to keep the urine hosed off.


19 posted on 08/29/2018 10:27:48 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: jean michael

He’s got a ship already. This is ridiculous.
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I agree and fittingly it appears, the ship is a destroyer. It has had a severe accident necessitating repairs in Japan. Kinda poetic justice methinks.


20 posted on 08/29/2018 10:27:48 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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