{"id":88902,"date":"2017-08-31T00:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T00:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/mccain-to-return-to-senate-after-undergoing-chemotherapy.html"},"modified":"2017-08-31T00:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T00:38:36","slug":"mccain-to-return-to-senate-after-undergoing-chemotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/mccain-to-return-to-senate-after-undergoing-chemotherapy.html","title":{"rendered":"McCain to return to Senate after undergoing chemotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Just days after undergoing his first round of chemotherapy, Arizona Sen. John McCain is expected to return to Washington next week when the Senate reconvenes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cSenator McCain will return to the U.S. Senate next week as Congress begins a new legislative session and looks forward to continuing his work for the people of Arizona and the nation,\u201d the Republican\u2019s office said in a Wednesday statement.<\/p>\n<p>McCain, who recently was diagnosed with brain cancer, has been home in Arizona during the August recess. He&#8217;s tweeted photos of himself hiking and grilling with friends and family.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">JOHN MCCAIN HAS BRAIN TUMOR, HOSPITAL SAYS<br \/><\/a><\/b><br \/> Returning to the Capitol, McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is expected to lead the debate on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a key priority for him.<\/p>\n<p>It also has political implications: McCain\u2019s return gives Republicans all 52 of their senators as they debate the NDAA, the debt ceiling, a government funding extension beyond September 30th and a tax reform package.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 18, the senator\u2019s daughter, \u201cOutnumbered\u201d co-host Meghan McCain,\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0that her father \u201ccompleted first round radiation\/chemo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis resilience  strength is incredible,\u201d she said. \u201cFight goes on, here&#8217;s to small wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News\u2019 Mike Emanuel and Alex Pappas contributed to this report.<br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/CBrOJAZAA2o\/mccain-to-return-to-senate-after-undergoing-chemotherapy.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after undergoing his first round of chemotherapy, Arizona Sen. John McCain is expected to return to Washington next week when the Senate reconvenes. \u201cSenator McCain will return to the U.S. Senate next week as Congress begins a new legislative session and looks forward to continuing his work for the people of Arizona and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-88902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}