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John Sidney McCain the III

September 17, 2008 3:34 pm The Head Feeding Friends-z

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McCAIN, John Sidney, III

Representative and a Senator from Arizona
Born in Panama Canal Zone, August 29, 1936
Attended schools in Alexandria, Va.
Graduated, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. 1958, and the National War College, Washington, D.C. 1973

Pilot, United States Navy 1958-1981, prisoner of war in Vietnam 1967-1973
Received numerous awards, including
  -the Silver Star
  -Legion of Merit
  -Purple Heart, and
  -Distinguished Flying Cross

Elected as a Republican in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress
Reelected to the Ninety-ninth Congress in 1984 and served from January 3, 1983, to January 3, 1987
Elected to the United States Senate in 1986
Reelected in 1992, 1998 and in 2004 for the term ending January 3, 2011
Chair, Committee on Indian Affairs (One Hundred Fourth Congress; One Hundred Ninth Congress), Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (One Hundred Fourth through One Hundred Sixth Congresses, One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001], One Hundred Eighth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. (source)

Currently on the Commerce Committee

and according to its Web site, the Commerce Committee oversees 13 areas,
beginning with the Coast Guard, and continuing through “regulation of
consumer products and services … except for credit, financial
services, and housing” — the very areas now in crisis.

The full list of Commerce Committee oversight areas follows:

1. Coast Guard.
2. Coastal zone management.
3. Communications.
4. Highway safety.
5. Inland waterways, except construction.
6. Interstate commerce.
7. Marine and ocean navigation, safety, and transportation, including
navigational aspects of deepwater ports.
8. Marine fisheries.
9. Merchant marine and navigation.
10. Nonmilitary aeronautical and space sciences.
11. Oceans, weather, and atmospheric activities.
12. Panama Canal and interoceanic canals generally, except as provided
in subparagraph (c).
13. Regulation of consumer products and services, including testing
related to toxic substances, other than pesticides, and except for
credit, financial services, and housing.
14. Regulation of interstate common carriers, including railroads,
buses, trucks, vessels, pipelines, and civil aviation.
15. Science, engineering, and technology research and development and
policy.
16. Sports.
17. Standards and measurement.
18. Transportation.
19. Transportation and commerce aspects of Outer Continental Shelf
lands.

Lots of transportation and military on that list…..