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John McCain returns to the US Senate
2008-11-18
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Fallen Republican presidential candidate John McCain rejoined his colleagues in the US Senate Tuesday, the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said. The Arizona senator participated in a meeting of Republican lawmakers from the outgoing Senate, which meets this week, McConnell said. McCain, 72, lost the November 4 election to the former senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, 47, who resigned his Senate seat on Sunday. McCain met with Obama for the first time since the election at the president-elect's transition headquarters in Chicago on Monday. The two pledged a "new era of reform" to solve the US economic crisis, transform energy policy and safeguard national security. "It is in this spirit that we had a productive conversation today about the need to launch a new era of reform where we take on government waste and bitter partisanship in Washington in order to restore trust in government, and bring back prosperity and opportunity for every hard-working American family," Obama and the Arizona senator said in a joint statement. "We hope to work together in the days and months ahead on critical challenges like solving our financial crisis, creating a new energy economy, and protecting our nation's security."
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