The New York Times has a great picture of John McCain looking Very Concerned.

Senate Republicans blocked a $410 billion omnibus spending measure on Thursday night, forcing Congressional Democrats to prepare a stopgap budget resolution to keep the federal government from shutting down.
The ability of the diminished minority to delay the bill signaled growing unease [...]

Jon Kyl tries to give DC to Maryland, fails 30 – 67.
Oh, McCain was a Yea, too.

The Hill:
Four months after he lost his bid for the White House, no one in the Senate really knows what to make of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
This week McCain tried to strip most of the earmarks from a pending $410 billion omnibus spending bill.
The effort failed. While the former GOP presidential candidate managed to rally [...]

East Valley Tribune:
The state’s two senators – Republicans John McCain and Jon Kyl – both plan to miss the event at Dobson High School. They say they were neither invited nor informed of the president’s visit to their home turf in time to alter their plans and show up for the speech.
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer [...]

Jon Kyl and John McCain co-authored this editorial for the Arizona Republic:
Proponents of the so-called economic stimulus bill have argued that legislation is necessary to stimulate our economy. We agree. The nation needs legislation that creates jobs, fixes our housing crisis, and puts us on a path toward economic recovery.
Unfortunately, the legislation Congress passed on [...]

CNS News:
The fact that the government has built only 32 of the 700 miles-of double-layer fencing that Congress initially mandated in 2006 is partly the result of the amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) slipped into the omnibus appropriations bill enacted in December 2007.
“There was certainly some bureaucratic wiggle room, and they used it,” [...]

Politico asked 99 senators about their taxes. Here were Jon Kyl and John McCain’s answers.
SEN. JON KYL (R-Ariz.)
1. Do you prepare your own taxes? Has not responded.
2. If not, who does? Has not responded.
3. Have you or the IRS ever discovered an error on a tax [...]

Senate
John McCain’s amendment to prohibit the applicability of Buy American requirements in the stimulus bill to the utilization of funds provided by the Act failed 31 – 65. The Senate is still working on the stimulus.
House
S 352, the DTV Delay Act, passed the House 264 – 158. The bill’s purpose is to postpone the DTV [...]

MSNBC:
So White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says President Obama invited some congressional folks over to watch the Super Bowl, huh?
Here’s the we’ve been able to track down on the Senate side (in between asking questions about the stimulus, of course).
Steelers are represented by Arlen Specter (R) and Bob Casey (D).
– Casey: invited and [...]

CQ:
Republican John McCain intends to run in 2010 for a fifth term in the U.S. Senate, and the recent history of senators thwarted in bids for president suggests he’ll be able to rebound smartly from his loss to Democrat Barack Obama in last November’s White House contest.
John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who narrowly lost in [...]

Senate
The Senate voted 60 – 34 to confirm Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury. Kyl and McCain voted Nay.
House
H RES 31, Expressing support for designation of January 28, 2009, as National Data Privacy Day. Passed the House 402 – 0. Grijalva did not vote, rest of delegation voted Yea.
H RES 84, Honoring the [...]

AzCentral:
Former GOP presidential nominee John McCain on Thursday named fellow Arizona Senator Jon Kyl as a potential 2012 presidential candidate.
Asked on CNN’s “Larry King Live” if he plans to support Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in the Republican presidential primaries, McCain said it would be “improper” to commit now because “I don’t know who’s running, for [...]

Senate
S. 181, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. Passed 61 – 36. Kyl and McCain both voted Nay.
House
H J Res 3, Relating to the disapproval of obligations under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Passed 270 – 155.
Yea: Kirkpatrick, Franks, Shadegg, Mitchell, Flake
Nay: Pastor, Grijalva, Giffords
H Res 56, Expressing support for designation of [...]

Senate
The Senate voted 94 – 2 to confirm Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Kyl and McCain voted Yea.
House
The House voted 260 – 166 to pass H.R. 384, the TARP Reform and Accountability Act. The purpose of the bill is to reform the Troubled Assets Relief Program of the Secretary of the Treasury and ensure [...]

Politico:
Sen. John McCain doesn’t want to talk about the presidential campaign, and he certainly doesn’t want to discuss Sarah Palin.
But two months after losing the presidential race, the “old John McCain”‘ is back, hammering away on government reform, earmarks and wasteful government spending.
The classic McCain made his first appearance of the New Year on Tuesday [...]

California Chronicle:
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has introduced legislation to ensure that that states and localities are eligible for reimbursement of the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens.
It is the federal government´s responsibility to control immigration. The cuts to the SCAAP program have let our local public safety services down, and have made our [...]

AzCentral:

Today, McCain, a longtime foe of pork-barrel spending, is expected to join Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., to announce earmark-reform legislation. The two had partnered on the 2002 campaign-finance-reform law.

Phoenix Business Journal reports that John McCain introduced these bills today:

• Lifting restrictions on long-haul flights at Washington Reagan National Airport and New York LaGuardia Airport. McCain has long sought to lift regulations that restrict West Coast flights out of those two airports.
• Expanding federal powers to investigate knock-off Native American crafts and art. That [...]

Arizona Capitol Times:

Among Arizona’s 10-member congressional delegation, Sen. John McCain and U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi — both for different reasons — missed the most votes in the 110th Congress, according to a report by Congressional Quarterly.
Renzi, who has spent much of his time with attorneys fighting various felony charges of corruption, voted 83 percent of [...]

AzCentral:
“In (swing states) Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico and Florida, the margin of defeat was the difference in the Hispanic vote between 2004 and 2008,” McCain said. “We Republicans . . . have got to recruit and elect Hispanics to office. And we need to correct the impression that many Hispanic citizens have, and that [...]