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posal as “wrong.”
“It created a special pathway to
citizenship and lacked sufficient
security and enforcement triggers,” Conant said in an email.
“The bipartisan proposal this year
is more conservative than what’s
been proposed in the past.”
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It is clear that McCain has begun
to consider how he will be remembered. He claimed he hasn’t
thought much about his legacy.
But a year ago, he started The
McCain Institute for International Leadership, using $9 million in funds left from his 2008
campaign that many Republicans
expected him to donate to the
Republican National Committee,
as President George W. Bush did
with $12 million in leftover donations in 2006.
When I asked him whether he’d
taken any flak from inside his
party over that decision, McCain
laughed and said, “Not directly.”
He was forthcoming about
how long he intends to stay in
the Senate.
McCain mentioned former
Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), who
died in 2010 at age 92, while
still in office.
“Unfortunately, we remember
people as they are rather than
the way they were,” he said. “I
revered Sen. Robert Byrd. Sen.
Robert Byrd, when I first came
to the Senate, he knew the Senate, he was the toughest guy, he
was — I mean, he was fair, he
was incredible. You know, the
last I remember of Robert Byrd
is he’s sitting there in his seat in
the Senate, in a very unfortunate
physical condition.
“I think two years from now is
the time to think whether I would
want to run for office again,”
McCain said. “I do think that I
Rep. Justin
Amash at a
House Foreign
Affairs
hearing last
May. Amash
called McCain
“racist” for a
joke he made
on Twitter
about Iranian
President
Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.