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Advisers for Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign returned to Capitol Hill Monday for more meetings with House Republican members to discuss policy coordination.
Team McCain held meetings with senior Hill staff on Friday and with lawmakers on Monday. They are scheduled to meet with the Republican whip team Tuesday.
On Monday afternoon, McCain economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin was scheduled to meet with Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), John Campbell (R-Calif.), Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) on the economy.
The McCain campaign confirmed that Holtz-Eakin — who used to head the Congressional Budget Office — would be meeting with members to preview the “major economic speech” McCain is expected to deliver Tuesday at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. The speech will focus on taxes, government spending, the housing crisis and free trade.
Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, will meet with the Republican whip team on Tuesday, according to two Republican sources.
Several of the Arizona Republican’s advisers, including Davis, Holtz-Eakin, John Green and Andrea Saul, detailed McCain’s month-by-month strategy to approximately 100 GOP staffers at the Capitol Hill Club on Friday.
The meetings are being held as House Republicans are stepping up their attacks on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
In a release, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) late last week criticized Obama’s controversial “bitter” remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser, saying, “Tonight I’m in one of the small towns Barack Obama insulted while he was raising money in San Francisco. It’s my hometown. They want to practice their faith without being berated by condescending elitists … That Obama doesn’t know that indicates just how out of touch he really is.”
The National Republican Congressional Committee also chimed in, calling on vulnerable House Democrats to denounce Obama’s remarks. |
