John Mccain Communication Style

Preston Truitt

10/1/15

Professor Rasmussen

Govt 2305

John McCain

On August 29, 1963, John McCain was born at the Coco Solo Naval Air Station located in the Panama Canal Zone to his father and mother, naval officer John McCain Jr. and his wife, Roberta. Both his father and grandfather had military backgrounds, each rising up to be four-star admirals. Due to this extensive militaristic background in his family, it didn’t come to much of a surprise that McCain, himself, would follow in his father and grandfather’s footsteps. In 1958, McCain graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis as well as flight school in 1960. When the Vietnam War broke out, McCain volunteered as an aviator combatant and started flying “carrier-based attack

Senate in 1986, McCain has shown his support for multiple committees, bills and interest groups. Of the multiple committees that McCain is in, there are three that mainly stand out, one of them being the Armed Services Committee. The Armed Services Committee is a senate Committee that is made up of twenty-five Senators, one of which is McCain who serves as the Chairman. This makes sense considering the role of the Committee and the background that McCain has. The purpose of the Armed Services Committee is to overlook the aeronautical and space activities that are “primarily associated with the development of weapon systems or military operations”(mccain.senate.gov). One of these operations includes the maintenance of the Panama Canal, which was where Senator McCain was born. Another committee that McCain is a part, and chairman of, is the Indian Affairs Committee. This Committee was formed in 1977 and currently holds fifteen members. The main purpose of the Committee is to study and attend to the problems of the “American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native people”(mccain.senate.gov). Some of these problems consist of their economic well-being, their education and land management. And the last Committee that McCain is well know to be a part of, is the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. This Committee is also only made up of fifteen members and has jurisdiction over the problems dealing with homeland security. This includes “government management; such as lobbying and ethics, federal nominations and health and public