John McCain's Time for Action tour arrived in New Orleans Thursday
criticized both the Bush Administration and Congress for its handling of the disaster
McCain said, "I want to assure you it will never happen again in this country. You have my commitment and my promise
McCain's record on Hurricane Katrina suggests that he was part of the problem, not the solution
McCain was on
Face the Nation on August 28, 2005, as Katrina gathered in the Gulf Coast. He said nothing about it
when Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, McCain was on a tarmac at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona,
greeting President Bush with a cake in celebration of McCain's 69th birthday
with the levees already breached and New Orleans filling with water, McCain's office released a
three-sentence statement urging Americans to support the victims
He voted against establishing a Congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local responses to Katrina in med-September 2005
He repeated that vote in 2006