- help homeowners
- cap executive pay
- provide oversight
*Update:
It must be noted, the agreed framework was reached without McCain being present or being in Washington for that matter.
**Update:
The Trail, a blog on the Washington Post website, has a rundown of McCain's role in the bailout framework agreement. In case you don't want to read it all here's a summary, non-existent.
McCain's "Straight Talk Air" landed at National Airport just after noon, and McCain's motorcade sped toward the Senate. But by then, senior Democrats and Republicans colleagues were already announcing that a deal in principle had been reached.
That news appeared to be somewhat premature as House Republican Leader John Boehner told his members that "no deal" had yet been reached. McCain arrived at the White House at 3:40 p.m. where he and his rival, Sen. Barack Obama, were scheduled to meet with President Bush and congressional leaders at 4 p.m
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But for most of the afternoon, McCain has not visibly been part of the action on the issue. He was not present when House and Senate negotiators emerged from a two-hour meeting to declare success. That announcement was made by Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Robert F. Bennett (Utah) and Frank.Now for the real clincher.
McCain, by contrast, spent some time in his office with several Republican colleagues, briefly stopped at Boehner's office, then left for lunch at the Capitol's Mansfield Room before returning to his office in the Russell Senate Office building.
Obama arrived in Washington later in the afternoon, accompanied by one Senate staffer. Democrats cried foul when a White House list of attendees indicated that McCain planned to take a campaign aide, former Congressional Budget Office director Doug Holtz-Eakin, with him to the White House meeting.If McCain's Campaign is suspended why would he bring a campaign employee to the White House meeting?
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