Illness sidelines McCain, Cochran as tax vote nears

by RICHARD LARDNER and MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press

Thu, December 14th 2017, 8:37 PM UTC

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2017, file photo, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., questions Joint Chiefs Chairman Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, file photo, Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., speaks to supporters following his victory over Democrat Travis Childers and Reform Party candidate Shawn O'Hara, at his victory party in Jackson, Miss.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File){p}{/p}

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 20087 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., accompanied by his daughter Meghan McCain, waves to supporters as he enters a campaign rally in Defiance, Ohio. Former Vice President Joe Biden sought to console the daughter of ailing Sen. John McCain after she began crying while discussing her father’s cancer on ABC’s “The View.” McCain is battling the same aggressive type of brain cancer that killed Biden’s son Beau in 2015. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2017, file photo, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., questions Joint Chiefs Chairman Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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