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July 18th, 2008, 10:28
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http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/07/whats-new-12.html
What's new: McCain hasn't been to Afghan hearings; Obama's environmental shift
Some of the campaign and political news making headlines this morning:
• ABC News' Political Radar blog -- McCain hasn't been to any Afghanistan-related hearings in past two years: Republicans and their presidential choice's campaign have been critical of Democratic contender Barack Obama because the Senate subcommittee he chairs has not had any oversight hearings about NATO's role in securing and rebuilding Afghanistan and because he has attended just one other hearing about Afghanistan. But, "it turns out that presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain has attended even fewer Afghanistan-related Senate hearings over the past two years than Obama's one. Which is a nice way of saying, McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Service Committee, has attended zero of his committee's six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years. ... McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers, in a statement to ABC News, argued that McCain's years of previous foreign policy experience make up for his recent lack of attendance at hearings."
• USA TODAY -- Obama has shifted over the years on environmental issues: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama "now calls climate change 'one of the greatest moral challenges of our generation,' and proposes cutting carbon emissions 80% by 2050. But as a state senator, from 1997 to 2004, he usually supported bills sought by coal interests, according to legislative records and interviews. ... The Obama campaign did not respond to questions about his support for the coal industry, except to address his 1998 Kyoto vote. The campaign said in a statement that the Kyoto treaty did not have 'meaningful and achievable emissions targets,' and that Obama 'did not believe that state agencies in Illinois should unilaterally take steps to implement a global policy on their own.' "
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/07/whats-new-12.html
What's new: McCain hasn't been to Afghan hearings; Obama's environmental shift
Some of the campaign and political news making headlines this morning:
• ABC News' Political Radar blog -- McCain hasn't been to any Afghanistan-related hearings in past two years: Republicans and their presidential choice's campaign have been critical of Democratic contender Barack Obama because the Senate subcommittee he chairs has not had any oversight hearings about NATO's role in securing and rebuilding Afghanistan and because he has attended just one other hearing about Afghanistan. But, "it turns out that presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain has attended even fewer Afghanistan-related Senate hearings over the past two years than Obama's one. Which is a nice way of saying, McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Service Committee, has attended zero of his committee's six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years. ... McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers, in a statement to ABC News, argued that McCain's years of previous foreign policy experience make up for his recent lack of attendance at hearings."
• USA TODAY -- Obama has shifted over the years on environmental issues: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama "now calls climate change 'one of the greatest moral challenges of our generation,' and proposes cutting carbon emissions 80% by 2050. But as a state senator, from 1997 to 2004, he usually supported bills sought by coal interests, according to legislative records and interviews. ... The Obama campaign did not respond to questions about his support for the coal industry, except to address his 1998 Kyoto vote. The campaign said in a statement that the Kyoto treaty did not have 'meaningful and achievable emissions targets,' and that Obama 'did not believe that state agencies in Illinois should unilaterally take steps to implement a global policy on their own.' "