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John McCain

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John McCain was a prominent American politician and military officer who served as a United States Senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. A member of the Republican Party, McCain was known for his bipartisan approach and commitment to national security. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he was a prisoner of war for over five years, an experience that shaped his political career and views on military and foreign policy.

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Apr 21, 2016

The federal government has a responsibility to protect tribal lands.

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Apr 21, 2016

I'm gratified to hear of your willingness, but your agency would not provide you, and did not until we issued a subpoena.

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Apr 20, 2016

The only deterrence that we seem to be establishing is over ourselves.

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Apr 20, 2016

Over the past 2 years, Vladimir Putin has been learning from bloody experience in Ukraine and Syria that military adventurism pays.

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Apr 20, 2016

When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea, dismembering a sovereign nation in the heart of Europe for the first time in 7 decades.

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Apr 14, 2016

This knows no boundaries and certainly no zip code. It is not just a Cleveland inner-city problem.

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Apr 14, 2016

Cleveland is one of the regions in Ohio that has been hard hit. The statistics are heartbreaking, and they are a call to action for all of us.

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Apr 14, 2016

We are urging them to simply pass that legislation, get it to the president who will sign it and get it to our communities where it will begin to help immediately.

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Apr 14, 2016

We made it bicameral from the start. So, it was not just not partisan, it was the House and the Senate working together.

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Apr 12, 2016

We are not going to be able to solve this problem by building a bigger wall or by stopping it at the border.

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Apr 12, 2016

I think there is a growing consensus around this issue of treating addiction like a disease.

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Apr 12, 2016

Washington is not going to solve this problem.

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Apr 12, 2016

I can assure you that at least the three of us are aware of the habits of Millennials--and our attempts to communicate with them.

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Apr 12, 2016

The border is--if not wide open, certainly, open enough to get inside of the country what the demand requires.

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Apr 12, 2016

Most of the deaths can be attributed to manufactured heroin that is coming from Mexico.

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Apr 12, 2016

I agree about getting tough with the pharmaceutical industry.

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Apr 12, 2016

Why are we not addressing it at all?

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Apr 12, 2016

I do know that the number of deaths have skyrocketed, which has gotten the attention of every Governor in America.

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Apr 12, 2016

In fact, Governors in the Northeast and the Midwest are saying that manufactured heroin has driven the drug overdose deaths up astronomically.

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Apr 12, 2016

Let us talk about the major problem right now all over the country, particularly in the Northeast and the Midwest--and that is manufactured heroin.

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Apr 12, 2016

Why do we not do that with drugs?

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Apr 12, 2016

Some version of 'Swift, Certain, and Fair'--is that, in some other respects, there has been the potential to shrink the amount of collateral damage caused by drug markets.

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