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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As I’ve stated in another thread there is a Federal Correctional Institute somewhere waiting to be renamed in his honor.
Do the Senate shitters have a name?
I bet they hated McCain.
Name the front for him and the rear of it for the Senator.
I thought that ship was named for his father/grandfather, or both.
btw, I have tried to listen to the news four times today and each time it switch to McCain as if none of us knew he died.
They added Senator McCain to the ship’s registry back in July.
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Agreed. It's unseemly.
How about the portal pottie at a government construction site? It’s already called a John, add the McCain part to that. When it’s full, haul away all the McCain inside and give it a fitting burial.
He was added by the Navy as a namesake to that ship.
BTT
I don’t want any taxpayer funded building with his name even near it.
Don’t let Democrats exploit John McCain’s death to erase another piece of their ongoing racist history.
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Well, that trial balloon went down like the Hindenberg. They must have gotten some serious blowback from the base.
“He was added by the Navy as a namesake to that ship.”
Then they ran the motherf*cker into a tanker!
“I thought that ship was named for his father/grandfather, or both.”
Originally it was.
But per Wikipedia: On 11 July 2018, at a rededication ceremony, Senator John McCain was added as a namesake, along with his father and grandfather.
McCain had very few accomplishments in his Senate career. His involvement as a member of the Keating 5 and the S&L crisis should have earned him and ejection from the Senate and 10 years in federal prison.
I think they should name a public restroom after him.
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