McCain tonight: The state of California and state of Arizona, we westerners care very much about our environment and we want to act.

McCain Voted Against Funding for National Parks.  In 1996, McCain voted against an amendment to the Fiscal Year 1997 Budget Resolution (SCR 57) which would have increased funding for national parks and sewer systems by $6.5 billion.  This amendment failed by a vote of 45 to 54.  In 1995, McCain also voted against an amendment to the Fiscal Year 1996 Budget Resolution (SCR 13) that would have increased funding for National Parks by $1 billion.  The motion to consider this amendment which required a 3/5ths vote to pass was defeated by a vote of 46 to 53. [CQ Vote# 155, 5/23/96; CQ Vote# 210, 5/25/95]

McCain Voted To Allow Oil Drilling In The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  In 1995, McCain voted multiple times in favor of amendments to the extreme GOP budget (HR 2491) to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling.  McCain also voted for the final Senate and conference versions of the bill, which contained language to allow oil drilling in the ANWR. President Clinton vetoed this extreme GOP budget bill. [Senate CQ Vote# 190, 5/24/95; Senate CQ Vote# 525, 10/27/95; Senate CQ Vote# 556, 10/28/95; Senate CQ Vote# 584, 11/17/95]

McCain Voted Against Wilderness Protection.  McCain has voted repeatedly against protecting millions of acres of national forest land and desert land as federally protected wilderness.  He voted to defund the Mojave National Preserve, against the California Desert Protection Act, against the Oregon Wilderness Act, and was one of only 11 Representaties to vote against the California Wilderness Act. [Senate CQ Vote# 584, 11/17/95; Wilderness, 12/22/95; Senate CQ Vote# 89, 4/13/94; Senate CQ Vote# 326, 10/8/94; House CQ Vote# 35, 3/21/83; 1983 League of Conservation Voters National Environmental Scorecard; House CQ Vote# 47, 4/12/83]