Mccain 2008 - Republican Candidate For President - ...

This CD-ROM provides an up-to-date collection of documents and material about the 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate, Senator John McCain, providing an essential reference for anyone interested in the 2008 Presidential election! Contents include legislative records, committee records, speeches, policy statements, news releases, images, and much more. Comprehensive sets of roll call votes in the U.S. Senate through the current 110th Congress are included, providing a record of the vote of McCain on critical issues. These roll call vote tallies are the official records as compiled by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate, recorded on the U.S. Senate database. There is extensive coverage of the Senate Armed Services Committee (McCain currently is ranking member of this committee). This extraordinary collection of detailed material has 78,145 pages reproduced with Adobe Acrobat PDF software. Senator John McCain: U.S. Senator John McCain has a long career of public service. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1958, John McCain began his career as a Naval aviator. In 1982, he was elected to Congress representing what was then the first congressional district of Arizona. In 1986, he was elected to the United States Senate to take the place of Arizona's great Senator Barry Goldwater. Senator McCain is currently the senior senator from Arizona. In 2000, Senator McCain ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. He is currently the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. He also serves on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Senator McCain has seven children and four grandchildren. He and his wife, Cindy, reside in Phoenix.