John McCain

How he's voted:

May, 25, 2006: Voted yes for the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act. The bill, which passed, included a guest worker program, National Guardsmen on the borders and a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants. Provisions also included higher fines for employers who hire illegal workers and 370 miles of barrier fencing along the border.

September 29, 2006: Voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006 authorizing construction of a 700 mile fence along the U.S. - Mexico border. The bill passed.

June 28, 2007: Voted to invoke cloture (limiting debate) on a bill that would overhaul U.S. immigration policies. The motion failed and the bill died.

What he's said:

We need to secure our borders. That is our first priority. We can't deport 12 million people overnight."
Associated Press, March 23, 2007

Any real solution in the U.S. must start with a view of immigrants as individuals in possession of certain basic human rights and as an economically and culturally revitalizing forces.In such questions of values, it is imperative that we hold ourselves to a standard at least as high, and surely higher, than we hold everyone else."
Remarks delivered in a speech in Belgium, April 28, 2007

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2002: Voted yes to authorize the use of force against Iraq.

May 16, 2007: Did not vote on the measure to cut off funds from most Iraq military operations after March 31, 2008.

May 24, 2007: Voted yes to legislation to continue funding the war without a timeline for troop withdrawl.

What he's said:

I think the president has embarked on a well-planned effort to rid the world and this country of the threat of the use of weapons of mass destruction by Saddam Hussein"
Financial Times, September, 17, 2002

I am aware the American people are frustrated. I share that frustration. I don't think the American people are aware of the consequences of failure. But if we fail in Iraq, this country's going to have a whole lot more problems...
Associated Press, May 27, 2007

I was very disappointed to see Senator Obama and Senator Clinton embrace the policy of surrender by voting against funds to support our brave men and women fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. This vote may win favor with MoveOn and liberal primary voters, but it's the equivalent of waving a white flag to al Qaeda.
Statement issued May 27, 2007

Plan for Iraq:

Supports more troops on the ground, strengthening the Iraqi armed forces and police, accelerating political and economic reconstruction.

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How he's voted:

October 25, 2001: Voted for the Patriot Act, which expanded the government's authority to intercept telephone and e-mail communications and to broaden the scrutiny and regulation of financial transactions.

March 2, 2006: Voted for the reauthorization of the Patriot Act.

September 28, 2006: Voted for a bill that authorized military tribunals to try detainees designated as alien unlawful enemy combatants. The bill allowed the use of some coerced testimony and evidence seized without a warrant and suspended the right of habeas corpus.

What he's said:

Simply put, this [military tribunal] legislation ensures that we respect our obligations under Geneva, recognizes the President's constitutional authority to interpret treaties, and brings accountability and transparency to the process of interpretation by ensuring that the executive's interpretation is made public. The legislation would also guarantee that Congress and the judicial branch will retain their traditional roles of oversight and review"
Statement issued September 28, 2006

If we leave Iraq there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home."
Associated Press, April 26, 2007

People who grew up in London, people who have spent most of their lives in the United States, have somehow become induced to be terrorists, and that argues strongly for accounting for and bringing under control a situation where 12 million people are in our country illegally."
Associated Press, May 23, 2007

They are recruiting individuals, even as we speak, to the cause of radical extremism, which is dedicated to the destruction of everything we believe in. The threat will be with us for the rest of this century."
Associated Press, July 26, 2007

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How he's voted:

March 13, 2002 Voted to move ahead with requirements that automakers increase their fleet's gas mileage (CAFE standards). An amendment delaying the requirements passed 62–38.

October 30, 2003 Was co-author of and voted for the Lieberman-McCain Climate Stewardship Act that would have required greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 2000 levels by 2010. Rejected 43-55.

July 29, 2005 Voted against the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which included tax incentives for greater domestic production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy as well as encouragement for conservation. The bill passed 74-26.

Dec. 21, 2005 Did not vote on a resolution to remove language from a Defense Appropriations Bill that would have opened Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration. The resolution to remove the language passed 48-45.

June 21, 2007 Did not vote on the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007, which aimed to increase the production of clean renewable fuels, increase energy efficiency of products, buildings and vehicles and protect consumers from price gouging. Passed the Senate 65-27.

What he's said:

I want to tell you the things that you don't want to hear as well as the things that you want to hear, and one of those is ethanol. Ethanol is not worth it. It does not help the consumer. Those ethanol subsidies should be phased out. And everybody here on this stage, if it wasn't for the fact that Iowa is the first caucus state, would share my view that we don't need ethanol subsidies."
Republican candidates debate, Des Moines, Iowa, December 13, 1999

I don't support ethanol subsidies, but I strongly support ethanol as an alternative fuel. We are too dependent on foreign oil, as we all know. I don't think they're going to need the subsidies. I don't see the price of oil going below $75 a barrel any time soon."
Campaign speech in Council Bluffs, Iowa, August 16, 2006

The strategy I propose won't be another grab bag of handouts to this or that industry and a full employment act for lobbyists. It will promote the diversification and conservation of our energy sources that will in sufficient time break the dominance of oil in our transportation sector just as we diversified away from oil use in electric power generation thirty years ago; and substantially reduce the impact of our energy consumption on the planet. It will rely on the genius and technological prowess of American industry and science. Government must set achievable goals, but the markets should be free to produce the means. And those means are within our reach."
Statement released April 23, 2007

National security depends on energy security. The problem isn't a Hollywood invention, nor is doing something about it a vanity of Cassandra-like hysterics."
Washington Post, April 24, 2007

On his website: On his website: www.johnmccain.com