Senators recall McCain as ‘a treasure,’ the ‘happy warrior’

John McCain by creating an official group to vet a variety of memorial options.

McCain, who will be buried Sunday, is likely to be replaced by a more conservative, toe-the-line appointee. You’d thank your lucky stars.

Unlike other politicians who did not serve in the military and had zero reservations for sending men and women to their graves in senseless foreign adventures, McCain did serve – it’s unfortunate that he never saw a conflict where he didn’t want to put boots on the ground.

“I found myself on both sides of that table over the years”, McConnell acknowledged. We have helped liberate more people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history.

On Capitol Hill, his desk on the Senate floor was draped with a black cloth, and adorned with white roses.

McCain, a prisoner of war in Vietnam, longtime US senator from Arizona and 2008 Republican presidential nominee, died of brain cancer on Saturday at age 81.

“We’ve kind of elected this apex predator, and you don’t sit T-Rex down at the dinner table”, said Alex Castellanos, a Republican media consultant and strategist.

“Nothing will overcome the loss of Senator McCain, but so that generations remember him, I will be introducing a resolution to rename the Russell building after him”, Schumer said. “Now, we all know those things failed, but he was a big champion of them”. “And we can try, as he summoned us to try, to restore the Senate to its rightful place in our national political life”, Schumer said about the Republican he’d worked alongside since the early 1980s.

The American flag fluttering atop the White House became the focus of national attention for most of Monday as the U.S. administration calibrated its response to the passing of Republican senator John McCain, also a national hero and an unrelenting critic of President Donald Trump. Richard Russell, a Georgia Democrat who led opposition to civil rights legislation.

McCain “meant so much to so many of us, ” inside the Senate and out, McConnell said, adding: “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”.

The Arizona Cardinals’ wideout, however, said speaking at Sen.

The two men who defeated Mr. McCain in his White House campaigns, Republican George W. Bush in 2000 and Democrat Barack Obama in 2008, are expected to deliver eulogies at a Saturday service at the National Cathedral in Washington.

Sen. Jeff Flake, the junior senator from Arizona, was one of the only Republicans to offer his full backing for the bill.

“He recognized democracy was hard but living in bondage to tyranny was far harder”. In other words, McCain may have leaned towards conservative positions, but he was never embedded in the philosophical ideas of US conservatism.

McCain was a frequent Trump critic and his family has said he did not want the president to attend his funeral. “I think we ought to have a little discussion about changing the name of a building, but certainly John McCain should be recognized in some way”. “It will be bipartisan – as only befits John’s legacy”.

“I’m going to bring mine”, Graham said. He gave everything for us. He will first lie in the Arizona State Capitol for a ceremony Wednesday (which would have been his birthday). His funeral will be held at the North Phoenix Baptist Church in Phoenix.