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John McCain, R-Ariz., told reporters late Monday evening that panel members will want to have Carter&#8217;s confirmation hearing &#8220;as early as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll grill him and we&#8217;ll put his feet in the fire on a lot of issues,&#8221; McCain said. &#8220;But you need to have a secretary of defense who isn&#8217;t lame duck.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked if he intends to finish the confirmation process next month, McCain replied: &#8220;Yeah, January. Absolutely.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Barack Obama announced Carter&#8217;s nomination on Friday morning. 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Roger Wicker<\/a>, R-Miss., the new National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, told CongressWatch last week. &#8220;What we [the GOP caucus] have discussed as a group is that of all the choices, Carter was the best and the most likely to sail through on a bipartisan basis.&#8221; \u25a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email: jbennett@defensenews.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013  The Senate Armed Services Committee will take up Ash Carter&#8217;s nomination for defense secretary in Janua&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":59804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[8,33,19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1090],"class_list":["post-27608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-home","category-pentagon"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"P7M47NLPIFAOND6PNBVJLRKDDQ","arc_canonical_url":"\/congress\/2014\/12\/09\/mccain-sees-senate-absolutely-finishing-carter-secdef-confirmation-in-january\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>McCain Sees Senate &#039;Absolutely&#039; Finishing Carter SecDef Confirmation in January - Defense News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WASHINGTON \u2013 The Senate Armed Services Committee will take up Ash Carter&#039;s nomination for defense secretary in Janua...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"McCain Sees Senate &#039;Absolutely&#039; Finishing Carter SecDef Confirmation in January\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON \u2013 The Senate Armed Services Committee will take up Ash Carter&#039;s nomination for defense secretary in Janua...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2014\/12\/09\/mccain-sees-senate-absolutely-finishing-carter-secdef-confirmation-in-january\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Defense News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-12-09T15:38:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-07T22:19:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John T. 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