January 19, 2018
By Dan Nowicki
Sen. Lindsey Graham (click here) visited his ailing friend Sen. John McCain in Arizona earlier this month and told CNN that he hopes McCain can return to the Senate.
"I was very pleased with his progress," Graham toldCNN's Dana Bash. "He's making progress. We laughed a little bit. We cried a little bit. I admire him greatly and I'm hoping he can come back and be with us."
Graham, R-S.C., is one of McCain's closest friends. His Thursday comments about the return of McCain, R-Ariz., sounded a little less certain than his Dec. 31 assertion on CBS's "Face the Nation" that McCain is "coming back in January, (and) we need his voice now more than ever."
McCain, 81, has been battling a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma. His office has not provided an official update on his health since Dec. 17, when McCain returned to Arizona after being hospitalized in Maryland for a viral infection and for side effects to his ongoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment....
There have been such incredible recoveries from giios. I wish him well.
January 20, 2018
Senator John McCain (click here) released a statement on the government shutdown on Saturday, asking both sides to “put politics aside.”
“As Republicans and Democrats run to cable news to point fingers and assign blame, the hard reality is that all of us share responsibility for this failure,” McCain said, in part. “Political gamesmanship, an unwillingness to compromise, and a lack of resolve on both sides have led us to this point. Shamefully, no one will incur more harm than our brave men and women who have volunteered to fight and die for our freedom.”
“It’s time that both sides put politics aside, come to the table, and compromise on an agreement that will give our service members the training, equipment and resources they need to succeed,” McCain added...
