Massachusetts: John Mccain

Senator John McCain is not giving up his fight against earmarks, even though the Senate rejected his attempt on Tuesday to strip them from the spending bill going through Congress. Teaming up with Democratic Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, the...

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama posed for pictures alongside Gordon Brown. John McCain met with Tony Blair. Ed Markey was briefed by Ed Milliband. In today’s British Invasion of Washington, Markey's guest -- Brown’s secretary of state for energy and climate...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator John McCain come at the subject of Afghanistan from vastly different viewpoints. But they agreed today that the Obama administration, which is sending 17,000 more US troops this spring to the war-torn country, faces...

Last fall, Barack Obama won a resounding victory, earning 66 million votes, defeating John McCain 53%-46%. Democrats gained seats in both the House and Senate. The election was clearly about change. Yet since January, Republicans have fought President Obama on nearly every proposal and nomination he's put forward. Why?

Because they remember the lessons of this man.

In 1993 and 1994, Newt Gingrich changed the way that the Republican party does business. Before Gingrich, there were policy differences, but strong working relationships allowed major legislation to move when Reagan and Bush Sr. worked with Democratic Speaker Tip O'Neill.

Faced with the election of Bill Clinton, Gingrich offerred a new approach designed to change the long-term minority status of Republicans in the House and Senate: fight President Clinton on everything.