John McCain took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to repudiate suggestions by his fellow Republican lawmaker, Michele Bachmann, that the family of a longtime aide to secretary of state Hillary Clinton had ties to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
But he is going to get a little practice at the altar on Saturday, when he officiates at the wedding of Representative Anthony D. Weiner and Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
At the State Department, she accused a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, of being affiliated with the Islamic terrorist organization.
Clinton has been quietly building a ground operation in Iowa, with a number of staff hires in Iowa including Matt Paul, a longtime aide to secretary of agriculture Tom Vilsack, to run Clinton's operation, as well as veteran Iowa operative Brenda Kole as political director and DNC deputy communications director Lily Adams.
The congressman also expressed concern about the toll the episode was taking on his wife, Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
A letter to the State Department singled out Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, prompting an impassioned defense on the Senate floor on Wednesday from Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona.
These include Matt Paul, a longtime aide to secretary of agriculture Tom Vilsack, to run Clinton's operation, as well as veteran Iowa operative Brenda Kole as political director and DNC deputy communications director Lily Adams.
He explained, in a soft, clinical tone, that the online relationships with the women had begun three years ago and that several of them began after he was married in July to Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in an elegant ceremony officiated by former President Bill Clinton.
