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   Washington (CNN)  Sat September 2, 2017    
      
      
   McCain: Trump 'poorly informed,' Congress 'not his subordinates'    
      
      
   Sen. John McCain issued a plea for bipartisan cooperation as Congress returns   
   from its extended summer recess, saying pragmatism, compromise and mutual   
   respect are more critical than ever given what he considers the lack of   
   experience emanating from the    
   White House.    
      
   "That has never been truer than today, when Congress must govern with a   
   president who has no experience of public office, is often poorly informed and   
   can be impulsive in his speech and conduct," McCain wrote Thursday in a   
   Washington Post op-ed.    
      
   "We must respect his authority and constitutional responsibilities," the   
   Arizona Republican said of President Donald Trump.   "We must, where we can,   
   cooperate with him.  But we are not his subordinates.  We don't answer to   
   him.  We answer to the    
   American people.  We must be diligent in discharging our responsibility to   
   serve as a check on his power.  And we should value our identity as members of   
   Congress more than our partisan affiliation."    
      
   The plea comes as Congress reconvenes from the August recess to a packed   
   agenda that includes keeping the government funded, raising the debt ceiling   
   and possibly working on legislation to address the federal budget, border   
   security and immigration, tax    
   reform and infrastructure spending.    
      
   In his Thursday op-ed, McCain called for regular order -- adherence to the   
   precedents and rules that guide the legislative process.    
      
   "We won't settle all our differences that way, but such an approach is more   
   likely to make progress on the central problems confronting our constituents,"   
   he wrote.  "We might not like the compromises regular order requires, but we   
   can and must live with    
   them if we are to find real and lasting solutions."    
      
   It was a similar statement to one he made on the Senate floor in July, when he   
   was one of three Republicans to vote against an Obamacare repeal bill that   
   Trump supported.    
      
   "We're getting nothing done, my friends," McCain told his colleagues at the   
   time.  "We're getting nothing done."    
      
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/02/politics/mccain-regular-order-oped/index.html   
      
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