JOHN McCAINImage

SENATOR (R), ARIZONA

Born: 1936 • Year Elected: 1986 • Contributions Received: $248,470,076 • Votes Missed: 17%
Email: http://mccain.senate.gov/publi ... • Website: http://mccain.senate.gov/ • Phone: 202-224-2235

CONTROVERSIES: Called for expanding the size of the military in order to send more troops to Iraq in 2004; named in the embarrassing 'Keating Five' scandal in which he and four other Senators provided routine help to Charles Keating, who was secretly manipulating savings and loan banks; continued use of ethnic slur in reference to his Vietnamese captors ("I hate the gooks...."); supports the teaching of intelligent design in schools. See: Sourcewatch

 

TOP CONTRIBUTORS FINANCIAL SECTOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Merrill Lynch $379,838
Citigroup Inc $335,951
AT&T $325,987
Goldman Sachs $315,365
Morgan Stanley $275,322
JP Morgan Chase $223,428
Credit Suisse Group $199,375
UBS AG $191,365
Bank of America $173,975
Pinnacle West Capital $166,850
PricewaterhouseCoopers $163,100
Blank Rome $161,426
FedEx Corp $160,645
Greenberg Traurig LLP $149,787
U.S. Government $149,492

TOTAL

$26,636,436
SECURITIES and INVESTMENT
$8,607,040
COMMERCIAL BANKS
$2,234,085
INSURANCE
$2,214,757
MISCELLANEOUS FINANCE
$4,625,079
REAL ESTATE
$7,670,549

COMMITTEES McCAIN LINKS
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Senate Committee on Commerce
Science, and Transportation
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

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Updated September 28, 2008.

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