Topic - John Mccain

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  Obama backtracks on contraception mandate

  Reacting to an election-year firestorm, the White House on Friday shifted course on its health care contraception mandate, announcing that religious employers will not have to cover free birth control for their employees and that the responsibility would instead fall to private insurers.

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  WOLF: Time for a Romneycare mea culpa

  Conservative voters have a message for the Republican establishment: Not so fast. The Washington-knows-best GOP insiders who gave us John McCain, George W. Bush, Bob Dole and George H.W. Bush are now pushing Mitt Romney. Conservative voters are pushing back. Hard.

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  McCain: U.S. must act to help Syrians under siege

  Sen. John McCain on Thursday said the United States should find ways to help the Syrian people under siege from President Bashar Assad, without putting American "boots on the ground."

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  U.S. searches for strategy to halt Syria violence

  The Obama administration says it is not considering invading Syria or arming its rebels to remove President Bashar Assad from power. Diplomatic efforts at the U.N. have collapsed.

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  Santorum: I won and raised about $250K Tuesday night

  Resurgent Rick Santorum said his sweep of three GOP contests earned his shoestring campaign $250,000 overnight, cash he needs to take his upstart bid for the Republican presidential nomination to Mitt Romney's turf.

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  Worried conservatives descend on Washington's CPAC

  Bound by a common desire to deny President Obama a second term, restive activists gathering Thursday for the 39th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington find themselves lacking a clear champion in the suddenly scrambled Republican race to choose an alternative.

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  U.S. not considering arming Syrian opposition

  The White House said on Tuesday that the U.S. is not considering arming opposition groups in Syria, deflecting calls from some lawmakers to explore such a possibility as one way to quell the violence in Syria.

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  McCain calls for U.S. to consider arming Syrian protesters

  Sen. John McCain on Tuesday said the United States should consider smuggling weapons into Syria to help unarmed anti-government protesters targeted by the Syrian military, whose ongoing crackdown continues to push the nation toward civil war.

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  Santorum pursues surge in Colorado, Minnesota

  The Republican presidential race could be headed for another reshuffle Tuesday as Rick Santorum, who has lagged behind since his surprise Iowa victory, is once again challenging the dominance of front-runner Mitt Romney.

• Inside Politics

  The leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee are suggesting that Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta rushed a decision to develop the Marine Corps version of the next-generation strike fighter jet.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Dangers of sequestration

  My good friend Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, and his colleagues are right: U.S. military superiority is in jeopardy if Congress doesn't overturn the automatic budget cuts scheduled to hit in less than a year ("Senate Republicans aim to ease defense cuts under sequestration," Web, Thursday).

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  KUHNER: Getting a reading on Romney

  Conservatives are asking a reasonable question: Will a Mitt Romney candidacy turn into another debacle like Sen. John McCain's in 2008? The Arizona maverick was said to be the most "electable" of the Republican nominees. Many GOP voters held their noses and supported Mr. McCain.

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  Senate passes insider trading ban for its members

  Ending a week that began with consensus but fractured into contention, the Senate voted Thursday to strengthen insider trading bans for its members, and in the process agreed to ban bonuses for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives.

• Senate Republicans aim to ease defense cuts under sequestration

  Senate Republicans on Thursday introduced a bill that would undo the first year of automatic defense spending cuts set to begin in 2013 under sequestration.

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  FIELDS: Political risks of clean living

  "I don't smoke, and I don't chew, and I don't go out with girls who do." My, how times have changed since kids amused each other with schoolyard doggerel like that one. Tobacco's out, but now nearly everything else is "in." Modern voters no longer pursue clean-living good boys, but good ol' boys with a little sin on their rap sheets.

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