Schumer-McCain could be a winning team in new Congress

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Schumer-McCain could be a winning team in new Congress
 
By Paul Kane Reporter

December 21 at 5:43 PM  



Sens. John McCain and Charles E. Schumer used to have a lousy relationship. The Arizona Republican and New York Democrat came from different backgrounds and focused on distinct legislative priorities. They were two hard-charging senators who were both aggressive in their courtship of the media.

The New Yorker and the Arizonan even broke into an open feud when, during a 2011 debate on defense policy, McCain joked that Long Island was “regrettably part of the United States of America.” Schumer demanded an apology: “All of America saw how heroic Long Islanders were on 9/11.”

Five years later, times have changed. The duo is emerging as a potentially critical force in the new world order of President-elect Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress. In the last 10 days, McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Schumer, the incoming Senate minority leader, led a bipartisan push to create a robust investigation into Russian hacking of political committees that intelligence officials say was designed to promote Trump’s candidacy.

Through TV appearances and joint letters, the senators are pushing for an investigation that Trump is so far rejecting and other Republicans have been reluctant to tackle because such a probe might appear to undermine the results of the 2016 elections.

“There’s no doubt [the Russians] were interfering,” McCain said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” stepping up the pressure on congressional GOP leaders. The question is now, how much and what damage? And what should the United States of America do?”

An hour or so later, Schumer held a news conference in New York City echoing McCain’s call for a detailed investigation, and a few hours afterward the carefully choreographed effort included a formal letter from McCain, Schumer and two senior senators on foreign policy issues, Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), asking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to establish a select committee to conduct a thorough investigation.

It’s unclear whether they will be successful in their quest, as McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) have said any such probe will be handled by their chambers’ Intelligence committees.[/i]

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